It occurred to me just now, as I helped a reader find some numbers, that it might be a good idea to repeat where you can get statistics on what refugees came to the US and to what states they were first resettled. We have written 2,311 posts since we began RRW in July of 2007 and have a category entitled ‘where to find information’ here. However, it would take some research on your part to find some important data bases.
Here are the statistics on refugees arriving in the US from 1983-2005.
Here are the statistics on individual years from 2000-2008.
This site has the numbers and country of origin (but not destination) for this fiscal year to August 31st.
For those of you looking to find out what religion refugees are, this site, Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing System (WRAPS), does keep those statistics but you can’t access the site or get the numbers unless perhaps you know some Member of Congress who will get the information for you. They may initially tell your Congressman that they don’t keep such numbers, but they do.
Here is a report from Homeland Security about refugees and asylees admitted in 2008.
This is a post I wrote on just Somali refugee numbers. This post is one of the most active we have with many visitors arriving daily even though it is a year old.
For information on all legal immigrants go to this post and follow the links back to the 2007 Yearbook of Immigrant Statistics (it takes a few minutes to load).
If you enjoy numbers these links should give you hours and hours of fun!