Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Atlantic City-Hammonton Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ increased from 175,043 in 1970 to 274,549 in 2010. That was an increase of 56.8 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 11,363 in 1970 to 43,003 in 2010. That was an increase of 278.4 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 6.5 percent to 15.7 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 41.5 percent.

	Atlantic 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. Natural change (B-D) was the principal factor adding population in the first period, replaced by NIM in the following two periods.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, NIM was the primary factor in population increase in all periods, accounting for all of the small population increase in the most recent period.

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

		B-D	  NDM	 NIM						B-D	  NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	59.0%	 neg.	41.0%					90-'99	33.5%	 neg.	65.5%
	00-'09	41.3%	 6.5%	52.2%					00-'09	 3.1%.	 6.5%	90.5%
	10-'14	36.5%	 neg.	63.5%					10-'14	 neg.	 neg.	 all

1/ Atlantic County.

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