Research Guides: Ethnicity and the Immigrant Experience in the US: SOC / GUS 0835: Data, Facts, Statistics

Statistics

IPUMS
"IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community context. Data and services are available free of charge."
Historical Statistics of the United States Online
The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history.
Completely expanded and revised.
Fully cross-referenced and indexed.

Mapping Immigratiom

Policy Map is a web-based Geographic Information System that provides a simple mechanism for visualizing data. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, immigration data, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.

To find Immigration data in Policy Map, click the link above to open the database; then click the Demographic tab; then click Immigration in the Population column on the left side, and select how you want the data displayed.

Maps of the Foreign Born in the United States
Interactive maps detailing where immigrant populations are concentrated in the United States by country or region of birth (2009-2013 pooled data from the U.S. Census Bureau). Explore settlement patterns and concentration of various immigrant populations in the United States in 2010 and 2000 with static maps. To look at a map, click on its title or thumbnail.

Where are you from?

World Family Names
Discover where most of the people with your family name are located.
Surname Distribution Maps
Sometimes it is possible to guess where a surname originated through surname distribution maps. These maps graphically display locations where surnames occurred at different periods in time.
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This strategy provides genealogists with a starting point for research in the birth country, when that information cannot be discovered through sources recorded in the new country of settlement. It works particularly well for less-common surnames and among families that have stayed in the same European locations for centuries.