Duluth, MN-WI Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Duluth Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ decreased from 293,422 in 1970 to 279,771 in 2010. That was a decrease of 4.7 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population decreased from 13,965 in 1970 to 5,087 in 2010. That was a decrease of 63.6 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 4.8 percent to 1.8 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) decreased by 1.7 percent.

	Duluth 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. Immigration (NIM) was the sole factor adding net population in the first period and the primary factor in the two most recent periods.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, the relative order of the factors was unchanged. [N.B. the annual average population change was negative for the first period and rose only slightly in the two most recent periods.]

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

		B-D	 NDM	 NIM						 B-D	 NDM	 NIM	
	90-'99	 neg.	 neg.	 all					90-'99	 neg.	 neg.	 all
	00-'09	41.2%	16.5%	42.4%					00-'09	 neg.	11.5%	88.5%
	10-'14	22.7%	 neg.	77.3%					10-'14	 neg.	 neg.	 all

1/ Carlton and St. Louis counties (MN) and Douglas County, WI.

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