Estimated number of 2014 Minnesota residents who were born in foreign countries 428,000
As percent of the state’s total population 7.1
Estimated number of 1920 Minnesota residents were born in foreign countries 489,979
As a fraction of the state’s total population 20
Percent of current foreign-born residents who are also naturalized U.S. citizens 45
Percent of Twin Cities’ residents in 2012 who were born in foreign countries 11.9
Percent in 1970 2.7
Percent of Greater Minnesota residents in 2012 who were born in foreign countries 3.9
Percent in 1970 2.2
Percent increase in Minnesota’s foreign-born population since 1990 300
Estimated number of immigrants who arrived in Minnesota between 2008 and 2012 24,000
Percent of Minnesota children under age 20 with at least one immigrant parent 16.67
Percent under age 5 20
Percent of foreign-born Minnesotans who live below the poverty line 20.8
Percent who work 72
Percent who do not have a high school degree or GED 26
Percent who have an advanced degree 15.5
Percent who do not speak English 6.8
Percent who speak English well or very well 58.3
Percent who own a home 46.8
Percent who rent a home 53.2
Year the Twin Cities metropolitan area is expected to no longer have a racial majority by 2100
SOURCES: Minnesota State Demographic Center, Minnesota on the Move: Migration Patterns & Implications; Minnesota State Demographic Center, Demographic Overview of Minnesota, Presentation to foreign journalists, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Press Center; Minnesota COMPASS overview; Minnesota COMPASS population by nativity