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Foreign-Born Residents
Los Angeles County

By Birthplace - 2021 Census Estimates*


-- 33.5% of all Los Angeles County Residents were foreign-born, according to 2021 Census estimates.
-- 64.4% of all foreign-born persons living in Los Angeles County, by 2021 Census estimates, entered the U.S. prior to 2000. Only 15.3% entered the U.S. since 2010.
-- 78.7% of U.S. native-born residents of Los Angeles County were born in California.


Also see: Foreign-born Residents of L.A. County by Birthplace, 2000 Census



Birthplace Number of Foreign Born Percentage of All Foreign Born Residents of County
Total 3,353,967 100.00%
Europe 168,829 5.03%
Northern Europe 42,586 1.27%
Denmark 1,568 0.05%
Ireland 2,610 0.08%
Norway 610 0.02%
Sweden 3,712 0.11%
United Kingdom 32,959 0.98%
Other Northern Europe 1,127 0.03%
Western Europe 36,155 1.08%
Austria 2,245 0.07%
Belgium 1,463 0.04%
France 10,903 0.33%
Germany 15,385 0.46%
Netherlands 4,043 0.12%
Switzerland 2,063 0.06%
Other Western Europe 53 0.002%
Southern Europe 18,189 0.54%
Greece 3,087 0.09%
Italy 8,933 0.27%
Portugal 1,360 0.04%
Azores Islands 256 0.01%
Spain 4,653 0.14%
Other Southern Europe 156 0.005%
Eastern Europe 71,431 2.13%
Albania 362 0.01%
Belarus 2,956 0.09%
Bosnia & Herzegovina 587 0.02%
Bulgaria 2,901 0.09%
Croatia 1,480 0.04%
Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic & Slovakia) 2,253 0.07%
Hungary 3,600 0.11%
Latvia 1,060 0.03%
Lithuania 1,296 0.04%
Moldova 1,594 0.05%
North Macedonia (Macedonia) 232 0.01%
Poland 5,902 0.18%
Romania 6,116 0.18%
Russia 20,300 0.61%
Serbia 1,195 0.04%
Ukraine 15,106 0.45%
Other Eastern Europe 4,491 0.13%
Europe, not elsewhere classified 468 0.01%
Asia 1,205,470 35.94%
Eastern Asia 461,064 13.75%
China 283,451 8.45%
China, excluding Hong Kong & Taiwan 193,383 5.77%
Hong Kong 27,597 0.82%
Taiwan 62,471 1.86%
Japan 36,249 1.08%
Korea 139,682 4.16%
Other Eastern Asia 1,682 0.05%
South Central Asia 199,426 5.95%
Afghanistan 3,761 0.11%
Bangladesh 8,049 0.24%
India 59,246 1.77%
Iran 108,258 3.23%
Kazakhstan 1,762 0.05%
Nepal 2,835 0.08%
Pakistan 8,151 0.24%
Sri Lanka 4,359 0.13%
Uzbekistan 2,327 0.07%
Other South Central Asia 678 0.02%
South Eastern Asia 403,572 12.03%
Burma 8,874 0.26%
Cambodia 21,166 0.63%
Indonesia 12,786 0.38%
Laos 2,643 0.08%
Malaysia 4,395 0.13%
Philippines 236,063 7.04%
Singapore 2,451 0.07%
Thailand 20,069 0.60%
Vietnam 95,058 2.83%
Other South Eastern Asia 67 0.002%
Western Asia 138,797 4.14%
Armenia 69,721 2.08%
Iraq 6,481 0.19%
Israel 15,197 0.45%
Jordan 3,546 0.11%
Kuwait 2,252 0.07%
Lebanon 15,988 0.48%
Saudi Arabia 1,529 0.05%
Syria 12,041 0.36%
Turkey 4,994 0.15%
Yemen 41 0.001%
Other Western Asia 7,007 0.21%
Asia, not elsewhere classified 2,611 0.08%
Africa 62,706 1.87%
Eastern Africa 15,192 0.45%
Eritrea 1,294 0.04%
Ethiopia 6,668 0.20%
Kenya 2,766 0.08%
Somalia 131 0.004%
Uganda 2,019 0.06%
Zimbabwe 459 0.01%
Other Eastern Africa 1,855 0.06%
Middle Africa 2,297 0.07%
Cameroon 1,142 0.03%
Congo 423 0.01%
Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) 597 0.02%
Other Middle Africa 135 0.004%
Northern Africa 19,356 0.58%
Egypt 14,333 0.43%
Morocco 2,604 0.08%
Sudan 832 0.02%
Other Northern Africa 1,587 0.05%
Southern Africa 5,478 0.16%
South Africa 5,406 0.16%
Other Southern Africa 72 0.002%
Western Africa 18,243 0.54%
Cabo Verde 44 0.001%
Ghana 2,828 0.08%
Liberia 423 0.01%
Nigeria 12,980 0.39%
Senegal 371 0.01%
Sierra Leone 689 0.02%
Other Western Africa 908 0.03%
Africa, not elsewhere classified 2,140 0.06%
Oceania 15,883 0.47%
Australia and New Zealand Subregion 9,112 0.27%
Australia 7,267 0.22%
Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion 1,845 0.06%
Fiji 2,876 0.09%
Micronesia 340 0.01%
Oceania, not elsewhere classified 3,555 0.11%
Americas 1,901,079 56.68%
Caribbean 31,035 0.93%
Bahamas 265 0.01%
Barbados 219 0.01%
Cuba 16,243 0.48%
Dominica 292 0.01%
Dominican Republic 2,321 0.07%
Grenada 281 0.01%
Haiti 1,398 0.04%
Jamaica 6,604 0.20%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 80 0.002%
Trinidad and Tobago 2,160 0.06%
West Indies 341 0.01%
Other Caribbean 831 0.02%
Central America 523,553 15.61%
Belize 11,913 0.36%
Costa Rica 4,539 0.14%
El Salvador 268,941 8.02%
Guatemala 176,146 5.25%
Honduras 35,740 1.07%
Nicaragua 21,535 0.64%
Panama 2,976 0.09%
Other Central America 1,763 0.05%
Northern America 1,246,958 37.18%
Canada 28,343 0.85%
Mexico 1,218,517 36.33%
Other Northern America 49 0.001%
South America 99,582 2.97%
Argentina 14,019 0.42%
Bolivia 3,634 0.11%
Brazil 12,931 0.39%
Chile 5,272 0.16%
Colombia 17,379 0.52%
Ecuador 11,177 0.33%
Guyana 1,671 0.05%
Peru 25,722 0.77%
Uruguay 1,465 0.04%
Venezuela 5,246 0.16%
Other South America 1,066 0.03%

* U.S. Census estimates based upon data and surveys collected by the American Community Survey over the preceding five-year period. These estimates are issued annually between full Dicennial Census counts conducted each decade.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau