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Estimates and projections of unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. for 2025, with discussions on national trends and state-level breakdowns
’s recent state-by-state analysis is the best publicly available baseline for and places ’s unauthorized (commonly called “undocumented” or “illegal”) population at about 130,000, at about 2.1 million...
Migration Policy Institute analysts estimate the unauthorized immigrant population rose sharply between 2019 and mid‑2023—roughly 3 million additional people nationally—and MPI produced county‑level p...
In 2025 unauthorized immigrants remain concentrated in a small set of large metropolitan areas—above all the New York and Los Angeles metros—and are still disproportionately located in a handful of hi...
Direct, county-level rankings of the largest increases in between 2021 and 2023 are not published in the sources provided here; the best publicly available county breakdowns come from the county data ...
There is no authoritative, source-backed estimate in the provided reporting that pins down the number of undocumented individuals specifically in ; available data are at the state level and vary widel...