Merced, CA Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Merced Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/increased from 104,629 in 1970 to 255,793 in 2010. That was an increase of 144.5 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 7,388 in 1970 to 62,884 in 2010. That was an increase of 760.5 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 7.0 percent to 24.6 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 98.2 percent.

	Merced 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) accounted for a majority of the population increase 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 principal factor in population increase in all periods.

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

		B-D	NDM	 NIM						B-D	NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	67.9%	 neg.	32.1%					90-'99	28.1%	 neg.	71.9%
	00-'09	74.7%	 neg.	25.3%					00-'09	22.0%	 neg.	78.0%
	10-'14	84.1%	 neg.	15.9%					10-'14	22.6%	 neg.	77.4%

1/ Merced County.

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