The US admitted 84,995 refugees in the 2016 fiscal year. This is the highest number since 1999. US State Department data reveals that many states took in extremely high numbers of the immigrants while others only accepted a few, according to an analysis conducted by the Pew Research Center.
The greatest number of refugees resettled during 2016 came to California, New York, and Texas, which, as a whole took in 20,738 immigrant refugees, almost a quarter – 24 percent – of the total figure taken in by the US. Around 3000 refugees were received by Michigan, Arizona, Washington, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, making up the top ten states to take in the resettled immigrant refugees.
Around 54 percent of the immigrants admitted to the US in 2016 ended up in one of those ten states. The District of Columbia and many other states took little or no refugees during this fiscal year. Fewer than ten refugees were settled in Arkansas, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia apiece. Hawaii and Delaware did not take in any refugees.
Those states that took in the greatest number of immigrant refugees are also some of the most populated in the US. Some of the less populated states took in more than the larger ones on a per capita basis. The state with the largest per capita single-year rate this decade is Minnesota, with 124 refugees per 100,000 residents resettled in the 2005 fiscal year.