Lawton, OK Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Lawton Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ increased from 114,976 in 1970 to 130,328 in 2010. That was an increase of 13.4 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 2,689 in 1970 to 7,221 in 2010. That was an increase of 168.5 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 2.3 percent to 5.5 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 9.6 percent.

	Lawton 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 added population in all periods as the MSA lost population in the first two 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 in all periods.

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

		B-D	NDM	 NIM						B-D	NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	95.2%	 neg.	 4.8%					90-'99	78.0%	 neg.	22.0%%
	00-'09	 all	 neg.	 neg.					00-'09	92.3%	 neg.	 7.7%
	10-'14	65.6%	 neg.	34.4%					10-'14	52.7%	 neg.	47.3%

1/ Comanche and Cotton counties.

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