Rocky Mount, NC Metro Area Immigration

Population

The Rocky Mount Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population 1/ increased from 111,463 in 1970 to 152,392 in 2010. That was an increase of 36.7 percent.

The foreign-born (FB) population increased from 177 in 1970 to 6,000 in 2010. That was an increase of 3289.8 percent. The foreign-born share changed from 0.2 percent to 3.9 percent.

The share of the overall population that was native-born (NB) increased by 31.5 percent.

	Rocky Mount 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 main factor adding population in the two most recent periods, and NDM had that role in the first period.

The second chart shows the same data but with an adjustment to reflect births to immigrants shifted to NIM. In it, NIM replaced B-D as the source of the most added population in the most recent period.

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

		B-D	 NDM	 NIM						 B-D	 NDM	  NIM	
	90-'99	45.8%	50.7%	 3.5%					90-'99	 42.1%	50.7%	 7.2%
	00-'09	73.7%	 neg.	26.3%					00-'09	 55.6%	 neg.	44.4%
	10-'14	79.6%	 neg.	20.4%					10-'14	 41.5%	 neg.	58.5%

1/ Edgecombe and Nash counties.

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