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Canadian-Born Residents in the United States

  • According to the 2009 American Community Survey, 822,377 U.S. residents were born in Canada.
  • Canadian-born residents represented 2.1 percent of the United States' total foreign-born population of 38.5 million and 0.27 percent of the total U.S. population of 307 million.
  • California, Florida, New York, Washington, Texas, Arizona and Michigan are home to 56.4 percent of the total Canadian-born population in the United States.
  • Nearly 30 percent (239,771) of the Canadian-born population lived in California and Florida alone.

United States 822,377 100.00%
California  132,969 16.17%
Florida  106,802 12.99%
New York  56,288 6.84%
Washington  48,727 5.93%
Texas  41,799 5.08%
Arizona  38,919 4.73%
Michigan  38,103 4.63%
Massachusetts  29,373 3.57%
Illinois  19,828 2.41%
Georgia  18,084 2.20%
North Carolina  17,945 2.18%
Connecticut  16,471 2.00%
Virginia  16,279 1.98%
Ohio    15,723 1.91%
New Jersey  15,635 1.90%
Pennsylvania  15,558 1.89%
Oregon  14,198 1.73%
Maine  12,267 1.49%
Colorado  12,262 1.49%
Minnesota  11,720 1.43%
Nevada  11,207 1.36%
Utah  9,527 1.16%
Indiana  8,884 1.08%
New Hampshire  8,792 1.07%
Tennessee  8,040 0.98%
Wisconsin  7,786 0.95%
Maryland  7,665 0.93%
South Carolina  7,074 0.86%
Oklahoma  6,187 0.75%
Vermont  5,173 0.63%
Hawaii  5,014 0.61%
Rhode Island  4,921 0.60%
Missouri  4,834 0.59%
Idaho  4,575 0.56%
New Mexico  4,194 0.51%
Kentucky  3,770 0.46%
Louisiana  3,731 0.45%
Montana  3,589 0.44%
Alabama  3,574 0.43%
North Dakota  3,501 0.43%
Kansas  2,821 0.34%
Alaska  2,627 0.32%
Iowa  2,538 0.31%
Nebraska  2,456 0.30%
Delaware  2,061 0.25%
Arkansas  2,017 0.25%
Mississippi  1,920 0.23%
District of Columbia  1,843 0.22%
Wyoming  1,228 0.15%
South Dakota  1,083 0.13%
West Virginia  795 0.10%

Source: 2009 American Community Survey; Migration Policy Institute (http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/acscensus.cfm)