- Approximately 43.3 million immigrants live in the United States, which includes 20.7 million naturalized U.S. citizens and another 22.6 million non-citizens.
- America’s foreign-born population makes up 13.5 percent of the total U.S. population, which is up from five percent (9.6 million) in 1965. By 2065, America’s foreign-born population is expected to hit 78 million.
- These days, more Mexican immigrants are returning home than coming to the United States. Between 2009 and 2014, around 870,000 Mexicans immigrated to the United States, while 1 million actually went back to the country.
- In 2015, over 50 percent of immigrant heads of household owned their own homes compared to 65.2 percent of American-born heads of households.
- However, immigrants are becoming homeowners at a faster pace than American citizens. Between 1994 and 2015, immigrants saw a 2.3 percent rise in home ownership while American households held even.
- The median income among the 20 million American adults who are the children of foreign-born immigrants is just $100 below the national average at $58,100 a year – almost 30 percent higher than that of their parents.
- The unauthorized immigration population has been declining since 2014, when there was an estimated 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.
(Source: Center for American Progress)