Muncie, IN Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Muncie Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ decreased from 129,219 in 1970 to 117,671 in 2010. That was a decrease of 8.9 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 783 in 1970 to 2,420 in 2010. That was an increase of 209.1 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 0.6 percent to 2.1 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) decreased by 10.3 percent.

	Muncie 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 shifted from the largest source of added population in the first period to about equal to NIM in the second and replaced by NIM in the most recent period.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, NIM became the largest contributor of population in the second and the most recent periods.

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

		B-D	NDM	 NIM						B-D	NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	88.9%	 neg.	11.1%					90-'99	80.5%	 neg.	19.5%
	00-'09	50.5%	 neg.	49.5%					00-'09	37.4%	 neg.	62.6%
	10-'14	36.2%	 neg.	64.8%					10-'14	13.7%	 neg.	86.3%

1/ Delaware County.

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