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While much of the country’s foreign-born population resides in urban counties, American Community Survey data highlight that a number of counties across the country, in urban as well as rural settings, are home to immigrants.
A comparison of counties that are mostly urban (populations that are 50.0 percent or more urban), mostly rural (50.0 to 99.9 percent rural), and completely rural shows that mostly urban counties were more likely to have higher percentages of foreign-born than those that were mostly or completely rural.
Data from the American Community Survey (2011-2015) on the distribution of the foreign-born population by rural or urban status for U.S. counties show that:
For more information about how the U.S. Census Bureau defines urban and rural geographies, see this brief on Defining Rural at the United States Census Bureau.
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