RIVERSIDE – (INT) - One in five residents of the Inland Empire is an immigrant, a new report has found.

The first iteration of its kind features a range of U.S. Census Bureau statistics about the Inland Empire’s more than 972,000 immigrants, a slight majority of whom live in Riverside County, the UC Riverside-led project concluded.

Some additional key points:
• Forty-eight percent of the region’s immigrants are naturalized U.S. citizens, and 52 percent are not.
• Latinos represent a greater share of immigrants in the Inland Empire than in the rest of Southern California; 49 percent of the region’s total population — and 69 percent of its foreign-born population — is Latino, although most of the region’s Latinos are native-born.
• When compared with the average for Southern California, immigrants in Riverside County are more likely to work in construction and agriculture, while immigrants in San Bernardi

“That’s an example of a story we don’t often hear when we think about the immigrant population in this region,” Center for Social Innovation Director Karthick Ramakrishnan said.

Story Date: April 26, 2018