Immigrants in Arizona Fiscal and Economic Impacts

IMMIGRANTS IN ARIZONA
Table A-3. Arizona’s 2000 Foreign Born Population
By County of Residence
Maricopa
Pima
Apache &
Navajo Coconino Yavapai
Naturalized citizen 109,589 38,011 1,541 2,114 4,425
Non-citizens 314,147 53,915 2,094 3,853 6,658
Foreign born 423,736 91,927 3,635 5,966 11,083
Native born 2,479,593 701,631 201,180 124,960 175,892
Total population 2,903,329 793,557 204,815 130,926 186,975
La Paz &
Mohave
Yuma
Gila &
Arizona
Pinal CGGS (1) total
Naturalized citizen 5,196 10,886 6,697 16,418 194,878
Non-citizens 9,878 33,388 14,264 19,144 457,342
Foreign born 15,074 44,274 20,962 35,562 652,220
Native born 200,291 120,692 244,881 229,293 4,478,412
Total population 215,365 164,966 265,843 264,855 5,130,632
Table A-4. Calculations of Immigrant Buying Power
Average
household
income (1)
Disposable
share of
income (2)
Household
disposable
income (3)
Number of
households (4)
Total buying
power (5)
Naturalized citizens $71,703 70% $50,192 120,720 $6.059,190,312
Non citizens $42,344 70% $29,641 148,744 $4,408,891,155
Notes:
(1) The 2004 American Community Survey estimates average wage and salary income for naturalized citizen households as
$56,282. IMPLAN ® increases household income by a factor of 27.4 percent to include non-wage income such as interest and
dividend income. This is reasonable for naturalized citizen households and results in average household income for naturalized
citizens of $71,703. The 2004 American Community Survey estimates average wage and salary income for non-citizen households
as $42,344. Because non-citizen households include many recent and illegal immigrants, we determined that it is not realistic to
assume these households would have significant non-wage income. Consequently, we did not increase household incomes beyond
wage and salary incomes.
(2) We assume disposable income to be 70 percent of total household income to adjust for taxes, savings, and remittances.
While we presume that non-citizens are the primary senders of remittances, this ratio was used to calculate disposable income
for both naturalized citizen and non-citizen households because remittances are treated as a form of savings. Research by the
Inter-American Development Bank indicates that 42 percent of Arizona’s Hispanic immigrants send average remittances $240 per
year.
(3) Household disposable income equals Average household income times Disposable share of income
(4) As estimated by the 2004 American Community Survey
(5) Total buying power equals Household disposable income times Number of households
Source:
2000 US Census
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