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The globalization of Connecticut and Metro Hartford
500,000
FOREIGN-BORN*
CT RESIDENTS
METRO HARTFORD
1
foreign-born residents
40 %
from LATIN AMERICA
POPULATION GROWTH
in last 25 years
8
REFUGEE POPULATION
LATINO
200 %
ASIAN
300 %
4,800 PEOPLE to the state since 2005*
This population arrives with complex social and economic needs.
For the last decade, growth in Metro Hartford’s population has been almost entirely foreign-born.
1/3 of Hartford’s population is Puerto Rican, making it the 4th highest percentage of Puerto Rican people in the continental U.S. PUERTO RICO Not included in “foreign-born” stats but is a significant factor for the issue.
*According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term foreign-born applies to anyone who is not a U.S. citizen at birth and includes naturalized U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, temporary migrants, humanitarian migrants and unauthorized migrants. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2013 American Community Survey; Refugee Processing Center.