Immigration Iowa. The Ames Tribune today prints some Harper's Index-style numbers:

• 80,000: foreign-born Mexicans living in Iowa (86 percent of the total Latino population).
• 80 to 90: percentage of Latino immigrants in Iowa who are undocumented. (Criminy. - DCF)
• 23: Median age for Latino immigrants in Iowa.
• 70: percentage of foreign-born Latinos in Iowa who have less than a high school education - second only to Indiana out of nine Midwestern states (the others are Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin).
• $28,300: median household income for foreign-born Latinos living in Iowa. ($41,687 for Iowa households overall.)
• 40: Percentage of Latino immigrants in Iowa who own their own homes. In comparison, the rate is 60 percent in Minnesota and 70 percent in Wisconsin.(So, if ~ 85% of said immigrants are "undocumented", that means at least 25% of the "undocumented" own their own homes.... how does that work? M. and I had to "document" ourselves out the wazoo to buy our house.)

but my favorite one of all:

• 46/38: Gender breakdown (male and female) of Iowa Latino immigrants. (It's that last 16% that really has me concerned.)

Posted by David Fleck at 25 June 2006 03:39 PM