More education means more jobs for local immigrants

As immigrants pour into the Washington region, more are able to find jobs and settle down thanks to their high levels of education.

“We have a more diverse group of immigrants than nationally, with a lower share from Latin America, a lower share that are unauthorized and most importantly a higher education than really any other metropolitan area,” said Randy Capps, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. “We all know that Washington, D.C., is about the best-educated metropolitan area generally — that pattern is exaggerated slightly more with the immigrant population.”