Grand Island, NE Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Grand Island Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ increased from 67,300 in 1970 to 80,135 in 2010. That was an increase of 19.1 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 4,633 in 2000 to 6,926 in 2010. That was an increase of 49.5 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 3.4 percent to 4.0 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 0.2 percent from 2000 to 2010.

	Grand Island 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 major factor adding population in all periods.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, NIM replaced B-D as the major factor adding population in the two most recent periods..

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

		 B-D	 NDM	 NIM						 B-D	 NDM	 NIM	
	90-'99	76.8%	 neg.	24.2%					90-'99	65.0%	 neg.	35.0%
	00-'09	68.5%	 neg.	31.5%					00-'09	45.4%	 neg.	54.6%
	10-'14	57.0%	 neg.	43.0%					10-'14	33.3%	 neg.	66.7%

1/ Hall, Hamilton, Howard and Merrick Counties.

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