Scranton - Wilkes-Barre - Hazleton, PA Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Scranton - Wilkes-Barre - Hazleton Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ decreased from 595,490 in 1970 to 563,631 in 2010. That was a decrease of 5.4 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 23,640 in 1970 to 25,941 in 2010. That was an increase of 9.7 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 4.0 percent to 4.6 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) decreased by 6.0 percent.

	Scranton 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. International migration (NIM) was the sole factor adding net population in the first and latest two periods, and NDM was the largest factor in the second period.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, NIM replaced NDM as the largest source of added population in the second period and was the sole factor adding population in the other two periods.

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

		B-D	 NDM	 NIM						 B-D	 NDM	 NIM	
	90-'99	 neg.	 neg.	 all					90-'99	  neg.	 neg.	 all
	00-'09	 neg.	58.7%	41.3%					00-'09	  neg.	43.0%	57.0%
	10-'14	 neg.	 neg.	 all					10-'14	  neg.	 neg.	 all

1/ Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Wyoming counties.

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