Study finds immigrant growth in suburbs outpacing cities

Today’s immigrants share little of the characteristics of their predecessors 100 years ago. Whereas immigrants in 1900 hailed largely from Europe and flooded mainly East Coast cities, today’s migrants are largely from Asian and Latin American countries and live in the suburbs.

According to the Brookings Institution’s State of Metropolitan America report, foreign-born growth in city suburbs is far outpacing inner-city growth. In the Washington area, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the suburbs over the last decade while it has declined by 3 percent in the city.