The number of foreign-born people living in the United States is on the rise. A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau, titled, The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2022, shows the foreign-born population rose by 15.6 percent from 2010 to 2022.

In 2022, the total foreign-born population in the U.S. reached 47 million, or nearly 14 percent of the total population. This is an increase of more than 6 million since 2010. 

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the foreign-born population is defined as anyone living in the United States who was not a U.S. citizen at birth, including naturalized U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (immigrants), temporary migrants such as foreign students, humanitarian migrants (for example, refugees and asylees) and unauthorized migrants.

States with the highest increase in foreign-born residents were Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia. These states saw their foreign-born population grow by more than 40 percent each. 

The median age for the foreign-born population is now between 41.4 and 46.7, an increase from 35.9 to 36.9. According to the report, 36 states, including the District of Columbia, saw statistically significant increases in their foreign-born shares of the total population. 

Regionally, immigrants now make up more than one-fifth of the population in California at 26 percent, New Jersey at 23 percent, New York at 22 percent and Florida at 21 percent. More than half of all immigrants in the U.S. entered the country before 2000. 

More than half of the foreign-born population have been naturalized with European- and Asian-born residents the most likely to become U.S. citizens, with naturalization rates of 67.4 percent and 62.8 percent, respectively.

Meanwhile, more foreign-born people are finding employment in the U.S. More than 63 percent of foreign-born residents over the age of 16 are employed while one-third of civilian employed foreign-born workers have jobs in management, business, science and the arts.