Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ increased from 723,527 in 1970 to 1,252,987 in 2010. That was an increase of 73.2 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 7,186 in 1970 to 97,472 in 2010. That was an increase of 1256.4 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 1.0 percent to 7.8 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 61.3 percent.

	Oklahoma City 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. The major factor in population increase was B-D for the first two periods, replaced by NDM 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, the relative ranking of the components of population change remained the same.

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

		B-D	 NDM	 NIM						B-D	 NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	66.8%	17.2%	16.0%					90-'99	 55.1%	17.2%	27.7%
	00-'09	52.5%	29.6%	17.8%					00-'09	 38.1%	29.6%	32.2%
	10-'14	41.0%	45.4%	13.6%					10-'14	 28.2%	45.4%	26.4%

1/ Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, Logan, McClain, and Oklahoma counties.

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