Foreign-Born Population in Metropolitan Areas with 5 Million or More People, 2000

The following metropolitan areas have foreign-born populations of more than 5 million people as of 2000.

Metropolitan area	Percent foreign born
Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, Calif.	29.6%
San Francisco-Oakland- San Jose, Calif.	28.3
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Conn.-Pa.	22.8
Dallas-Ft. Worth, Tex.	12.8
Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, Mass.-N.H.-Maine-Conn.	12.5%
Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, Ill.-Ind.-Wis.	12.3
Washington-Baltimore, DC-Md.-Va.-W.Va.	11.9
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, Mich.	7.4
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, Pa.-N.J.-Del.-Md.	5.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2001, Table 5–2A.

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