More Children in Immigrant Families

In 2013, 17.8 mil­lion chil­dren lived in immi­grant fam­i­lies, a 26% increase from the last decade. Of these chil­dren, 89% are U.S. citizens.

Among chil­dren liv­ing in immi­grant fam­i­lies, 24% have par­ents with­out a high school degree, and 22% live in lin­guis­ti­cal­ly iso­lat­ed house­holds — both pre­dic­tors of poor out­comes. Cal­i­for­nia (48%), Neva­da (37%) and New Jer­sey (36%) have the largest share of chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies. West Vir­ginia (3%), Mon­tana (4%) and Mis­sis­sip­pi (4%) have the lowest.

Explore new Demo­graph­ic and Edu­ca­tion data avail­able for the nation, states and 50 largest U.S. cities in the KIDS COUNT Data Cen­ter:

• Child pop­u­la­tion by nativity
• Chil­dren in immi­grant families
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies who are U.S. citizens
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies by parent’s region of origin
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies in which res­i­dent par­ents are not U.S. citizens
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies whose res­i­dent par­ents have been in the coun­try five years or less
   
• Chil­dren liv­ing in lin­guis­ti­cal­ly iso­lat­ed house­holds by fam­i­ly nativity
• Chil­dren who have dif­fi­cul­ty speak­ing Eng­lish by fam­i­ly nativity
• Chil­dren whose par­ents all have less than a high school degree by fam­i­ly nativity
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies in which res­i­dent par­ents have less than a ninth-grade education
• Chil­dren in immi­grant fam­i­lies in which res­i­dent par­ents have dif­fi­cul­ty speak­ing English