---
title: "2015, Foreign-Born Population in the United States Statistical Portrait"
description: "There were a record 43.2 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2015, making up 13.4% of the nation’s population."
date: "2017-05-03"
authors:
  - name: "Gustavo López"
    job_title: "Former Research Analyst"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/gustavo-lopez/"
  - name: "Jynnah Radford"
    job_title: "Former Research Assistant"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/jynnah-radford/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2017/05/03/2015-statistical-information-on-immigrants-in-united-states/"
categories:
  - "Immigrant Populations"
  - "Immigration & Language Adoption"
  - "Immigration & Migration"
  - "Immigration Trends"
---

# 2015, Foreign-Born Population in the United States Statistical Portrait

*Visit the [most recent data on U.S. immigrants](https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2019/06/03/facts-on-u-s-immigrants-current-data/).

There were a record 43.2 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2015, making up 13.4% of the nation’s population. This represents a fourfold increase since 1960, when only 9.7 million immigrants lived in the U.S., accounting for just 5.4% of the total U.S. population. Click on the expand buttons below the summary tables to see detailed tables for each.

[Click here](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/05/CURRENT_Statistical-Portrait-of-the-Foreign-Born-2015_FINAL.pdf) for a PDF of all the tables below and [read the accompanying blog post](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/05/03/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/). Download the [Excel workbook](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/05/CURRENT_Statistical-Portrait-of-the-Foreign-Born-2015_FINAL.xlsx).

For a profile of the Hispanic population in the United States, [click here](https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2017/09/18/facts-on-u-s-latinos/).

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Population (#) 43,158,110

Born in Mexico 26.8%

Citizen 48.0%

Speaking English at least very well (ages 5 and older) 51.0%

White alone, not Hispanic 18.1%

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Median age (in years) 43

Female 51.4%

Married (ages 18 and older) 59.8%

Women ages 15-44 giving birth in past year 7.4%

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High school graduate or less 51.6%

Two-year degree/Some college 18.7%

Bachelor's degree or more 29.7%

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In labor force (among civilian population) 66.0%

Median annual personal earnings (in 2015 dollars, among those with earnings) $28,000

Median annual household income (in 2015 dollars) $51,000

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Living in poverty 16.5%

Uninsured 22.2%

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In family households 86.3%

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West 34.6%

California 24.7%

South 32.9%

Texas 10.7%

Florida 9.5%

Northeast 21.3%

New York 10.5%

New Jersey 4.6%

Midwest 11.1%

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Source: Pew Research Center tabulations of 2015 American Community Survey (1% IPUMS) "Statistical Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States, 2015"