Abilene, TX Metro Area Immigration

Population

Abilene's Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/increased from 122,164 in 1970 to 165,252 in 2010. That was an increase of 35.3 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 1,310 in 1970 to 8,364 in 2010. That was an increase of 538.5 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 1.1 percent to 5.1 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 29.8 percent.

	Abilene MSA: Population  1970-2010

Sources of Population Change

The primary sources of population change are:

Natural Change [Births minus Deaths or B-D];
Net Domestic Migration [NDM - movement between states]; and
Net International Migration [NIM - movement into and out of the country].
There is also a residual "other" amount that isn't placed in one of those three categories.

The first chart below shows the three population change factors for three periods adjusted for annual average amounts. Domestic migration (NDM) was consistently negative and B-D accounted for a majority of the population increase in all periods.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, B-D remained the main source of added population, although NIM was nearly as large in the most recent period.

	Abilene MSA: Sources of Population Change 1990-2014 		Abilene MSA: Sources of Population Change (Adjusted) 1990-2014

		B-D	NDM	 NIM						B-D	NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	84.2%	neg.	15.8%					90-'99	73.2%	neg.	26.8%
	00-'09	91.3%	neg.	 8.7%					00-'09	72.4%	neg.	27.6%
	10-'14	69.7%	neg.	30.3%					10-'14	51.1%	neg.	48.9%

1/ Callahan, Jones and Taylor counties.

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