By Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services | Camp Verde Bugle
Wondering where all your new neighbors are coming from?
There’s a good chance they’re from California.
New figures from the Census Bureau show nearly 262,000 people moved into Arizona from other states last year. And almost 60,000 of them were residents of the self-proclaimed Golden State.
But that’s only a piece of the picture about the state’s growth rate.
That same report finds that more than 45,000 people who were in Arizona in 2017 were living abroad a year earlier.
The Census Bureau provides no breakdown of which countries are providing the lion’s share of new residents. But 2015 figures from the American Immigration Council shows 56 percent of immigrants came from Mexico, with 4.2 percent from Canada, 4.1 percent from India, 2.9 percent from the Philippines and 2.7 percent from Vietnam.
