TABLE | 2013 Estimated Total Number Eligible for DACA and DAPA, by State of Residence

The table below is the result of a project by the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) to estimate the size and characteristics of the unauthorized population in the United States at the national, state, and sub-state levels, and to make the information readily available to a wide cross-section of users.[1] To derive the estimates, a series of statistical procedures were developed based on microdata collected by the US Census Bureau in the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS). [2]

The methodology involved three major steps: (1) applying a series of “logical edits” [3] to identify as many legal residents as possible based on responses in the survey; (2) deriving separate population controls, for 145 countries or areas, for unauthorized residents counted in the 2010 ACS; and (3) using those population controls to select individual respondents in the ACS to be classified as unauthorized residents. A final set of adjustments was made to account for undercount in the ACS.

Estimated Total Number Eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), by State of Residence: 2013

 

	DAPA			DACA
U.S. total	3,887,800		U.S. total	1,518,600
Alabama	22,400		Alabama	9,600
Alaska	1,300		Alaska	100
Arizona	117,700		Arizona	45,600
Arkansas	22,400		Arkansas	7,800
California	966,900		California	407,500
Colorado	64,400		Colorado	24,600
Connecticut	37,200		Connecticut	13,300
Delaware	8,500		Delaware	1,500
D.C.	3,300		D.C.	1,000
Florida	182,400		Florida	99,000
Georgia	128,700		Georgia	44,900
Hawaii	5,700		Hawaii	4,300
Idaho	18,300		Idaho	5,900
Illinois	213,900		Illinois	74,000
Indiana	40,300		Indiana	11,800
Iowa	18,300		Iowa	9,100
Kansas	30,300		Kansas	9,400
Kentucky	13,000		Kentucky	4,600
Louisiana	14,100		Louisiana	3,100
Maine	600		Maine	500
Maryland	61,000		Maryland	23,600
Massachusetts	40,200		Massachusetts	16,300
Michigan	37,500		Michigan	10,600
Minnesota	29,400		Minnesota	12,800
Mississippi	6,600		Mississippi	900
Missouri	18,800		Missouri	7,600
Montana	500		Montana	100
Nebraska	14,600		Nebraska	4,200
Nevada	63,800		Nevada	24,800
New Hampshire	2,000		New Hampshire	1,000
New Jersey	145,700		New Jersey	55,400
New Mexico	31,700		New Mexico	17,200
New York	231,300		New York	99,200
North Carolina	125,000		North Carolina	35,200
North Dakota	1,400		North Dakota	400
Ohio	24,800		Ohio	10,800
Oklahoma	32,300		Oklahoma	10,400
Oregon	47,300		Oregon	19,400
Pennsylvania	44,100		Pennsylvania	15,900
Rhode Island	7,200		Rhode Island	5,100
South Carolina	30,600		South Carolina	10,800
South Dakota	1,000		South Dakota	–
Tennessee	40,500		Tennessee	12,100
Texas	684,400		Texas	262,500
Utah	33,500		Utah	12,900
Vermont	1,000		Vermont	–
Virginia	83,500		Virginia	29,100
Washington	102,500		Washington	32,000
West Virginia	100		West Virginia	1,200
Wisconsin	33,600		Wisconsin	9,100
Wyoming	2,200		Wyoming	100

 

Source: Center for Migration Studies; Warren, Robert. 2014. “Democratizing Data about Unauthorized Residents in the United States: Estimates and Public-use Data, 2010 to 2013.” Journal on Migration and Human Security 2(4): 305-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/233150241400200403.

 

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[1] A detailed description of the project and the methodology is available at: Robert Warren, “Democratizing Data about Unauthorized Residents in the United States: Estimates and Public-Use Data, 2010 to 2013,” Journal on Migration and Human Security 2(4): 305-28, https://doi.org/10.1177/233150241400200403.

[2] The ACS is an annual statistical survey covering approximately one percent of the total US population. The survey provides detailed social and economic data for all states, as well as all cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and population groups of 100,000 people or more.

[3] The term “logical edit” refers to the process of determining probable legal status by examining survey data. Respondents were assigned to the legal category if they worked in occupations that generally require legal status, were legal temporary migrants, were immediate relatives of US citizens, received public benefits, were from countries where most arrivals would be refugees, or were age 60 or older at entry.

Privacy Notice

Privacy of Respondents
A number of procedures were used by the US Census Bureau to ensure privacy in the ACS public use data. In addition, the estimates are based on an approximately one percent sample; they are shown in relatively broad categories; and estimates are not shown for countries that have fewer than 1,000 estimated unauthorized residents.

These estimates are based on sample data and are subject to sampling variability as well as other possible non-sampling errors. A number of statistical adjustments were made to the actual ACS PUMS sample data, including an adjustment for undercount of the unauthorized in the ACS.  For these reasons, the estimates shown here are not comparable to the original ACS data. Because of the adjustment for undercount, in a few cases, the estimates of unauthorized residents may be near or even slightly higher than the number of noncitizens reported in the ACS. Finally, estimates of less than a few thousand should be used with caution.

See Methodology for more information on these estimates.