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Canadian-Born Residents in the United States
- According to the most recent U.S. Census in 2000, 820,771 U.S. residents in 2000 were born in Canada.
- Canadian-born residents represented 2.6 percent of the United States' total foreign-born population of 31.1 million and 0.3 percent of the total U.S. population of 281.4 million.
- The seven states with the largest populations of Canadian-born were California, Florida, New York, Michigan, Washington, Massachusetts and Texas. Combined, these seven states constituted 57.2 percent of the total Canadian-born population in the United States.
- Nearly 30 percent (240,320) of the Canadian-born population lived in California and Florida alone.
- A majority (61.3%) of the Canadian-born residents of the U.S. in 2000 lived in the West and South.
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Source: 2000 U.S. Census; Migration Policy Institute (http://www.migrationinformation.org/USFocus/statemap.cfm)