Fun Immigration Facts

Fun Immigration Facts

Dearborn, MI or (“Dearbornistan”) is 40% Arab-American. It hosts the largest Lebanese American population and the highest percentage of Arabs of any city.

There are more immigrants living in New York City than there are people in Chicago, the third largest city in the United States.

There are over 80,000 immigrants in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Queens. 71% of the Elmhurst neighborhood in Queens is foreign born.

In 2010, Mexicans were the most populous immigrant group in 34 US states. Their homogenous dominance across the American landscape is countered by the Atlantic and Northeast, where the immigrant demographics are more even. Canada is second, counting its diaspora the most populous in 5 US States. Indians are the most populous in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and West Virginia. El Salvador takes Maryland and Virginia. Massachusetts’s largest group is Chinese, Rhode Island’s and New York’s are Dominican, Connecticut’s is Jamaican, and Alaska’s and Hawaii’s is Filipino.

In 1910, Mexicans were the most populous immigrant group in 3 US States – New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. Arizona and New Mexico did not even receive statehood until 1912.

Over 3,000 immigrants take the oath of naturalization to US citizenship on July 4 every year at Monticello. Monticello is Thomas Jefferson’s estate. Thomas Jefferson, the third president, died July 4, 1826, fifty years after the famed Declaration of Independence signing.

Chief Justice Warren Burger led the naturalization ceremonies of 15,000 new citizens on July 4, 1986.

460 languages are spoken in the United States and 150 languages are spoken by students of the New York City public school system. Queens is the most linguistically diverse area on the earth.