Immigrants in California

The Public Policy Institute of California has released a fact sheet on “Immigrants in California.”

The fact sheet wass authored by Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Cesar Alesi Perez, and Hans Johnson.  California is home to nearly a quarter of the nation’s immigrants; foreign-born residents come from dozens of countries, and the vast majority are documented.  It offers these big picture facts:

“California has more immigrants than any other state.

• California is home to 10.6 million immigrants—22% of the foreign-born population nationwide.
• In 2023, the most current year of data, 27% of California’s population was foreign born, the highest share of any state and more than double the share in the rest of the country (12%).
• Almost half (45%) of California children have at least one immigrant parent.
• A third (34%) of prime-working-age adults—those 25 to 54—are foreign born; half (52%) of all foreign-born Californians are in this age group.”

KJ