Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/increased from 8,452,461 in 1970 to 12,828,837 in 2010. That was an increase of 51.8 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 877,310 in 1970 to 4,408,398 in 2010. That was an increase of 402.1 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 10.4 percent to 34.4 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 11.2 percent.

	Los Angeles 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.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, net immigration (NIM) accounts for nearly all of the population increase in the first period and all of it in the two most recent periods. This implies that net B-D among the native born population was slightly negative in the most recent period.

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

		B-D	NDM	 NIM						B-D	NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	55.7%	neg.	44.3%					90-'99	 5.8%	neg.	94.2%
	00-'09	57.0%	neg.	43.9%					00-'09	 neg.	neg.	 all
	10-'14	59.5%	neg.	40.5%					10-'14	 neg.	neg.	 all

1/ Los Angeles and Orange counties.

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