New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area Immigration

Population

The New York-Newark-Jersey City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ increased from 17,506,261 in 1970 to 19,568,438187 in 2010. That was an increase of 11.8 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 2,342,220 in 1970 to 5,520,517 in 2010. That was an increase of 135.7 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 13.4 percent to 28.2 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) decreased by 7.4 percent.

	New York 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. Immigration (NIM) was the principal factor in population increase while NDM was negative 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 remained the primary source of added population in all periods and the sole source in the most recent period.

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

		B-D	 NDM	 NIM						B-D	 NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	44.4%	 neg.	55.6%					90-'99	  3.4%	 neg.	96.6%
	00-'09	49.4%	 neg.	50.6%					00-'09	  3.8%	 neg.	96.2%
	10-'14	43.9%	 neg.	56.1%					10-'14	  neg.	 neg.	 all

1/ NJ counties: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, and Passaic, Somerset, Sussssex, and Union; NY counties: Bronx, Duchess, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester; plus Pike County, PA.

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