Kids Count Data Center

Definitions: The share of children under age 18 either foreign-born or who have at least one foreign-born parent with at least one parent from Latin America, Europe, Asia or Africa.

Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 - 2011 American Community Survey.

Footnotes: Updated November 2012.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points. N.A. – Data not available.
Data are provided for the 50 most populous cities according to the most recent Census counts.  Cities for which data is collected may change over time.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Children in immigrant families by parent's region of origin.

Note: The District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are not included in maps and rankings because they are not states and therefore comparisons on many indicators of child well being are not meaningful.