Bloomington, IN Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Bloomington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ increased from 123,906 in 1970 to 192,714 in 2010. That was an increase of 55.5 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 3,455 in 1970 to 10,223 in 2010. That was an increase of 195.9 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 2.8 percent to 5.3 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 51.5 percent.

	Bloomington 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. Natural change (B-D) was the primary source of population increase in the first two periods, replaced by NIM in the most recent period.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, NIM also contributed the most to population increase in the second period as well as in the most recent period.

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

		B-D	  NDM	 NIM						B-D	  NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	49.7%	41.8%	 8.5%					90-'99	42.6%	41.9%	15.6%
	00-'09	45.9%	17.6%	36.5%					00-'09	35.6%	17.6%	46.9%
	10-'14	32.4%	 neg.	67.6%					10-'14	20.9%	 neg.	79.1%

1/ Monroe, and Owen counties.

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