FOI ref: FOI/2023/4818
You asked
What are the yearly statistics for people moving (immigrating) to the UK from the US, since 2010?
What is the current estimated proportion of individuals in the UK who are originally from the United States?
What is the average economic contribution to the UK economy, of immigrants coming from the United States, by year since 2010?
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Q1.
Please see the following link to our estimates of migration to and from the UK by citizenship from 2010. The lowest level this data provides is for the group 'North America': Provisional long-term international migration estimates.
This series was discontinued in 2020 due to the transformation of our migration statistics.
Our latest release on 'the changing picture of long-term international migration' may be of interest. This can be access via the following link: Long-term International Data. This contains a link to a dataset that can be used to identify immigration in the year preceding 2021 census by country of birth or passport held.
Q2.
Please see associated download, named 'TS012_Country_of_birth_(detailed)_Census_2021.xlsx' showing data from Census 2021 country of birth data for England and Wales.
Data for the USA as country of birth can be found on row 76 and shows that there are 203,281 people in England and Wales who were born in the USA.
This was downloaded from the Nomis website, which is a service run by Durham University on behalf of the Office for National Statistics. Further tables can be found at www.nomisweb.co.uk. Please see the NOMIS Navigation Instructions in the associated downloads.
The UK censuses are run separately by each National Statistics Office (Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency (NISRA), National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for both England and Wales).
Northern Ireland's census was taken in 2021 and you can access their census data here: https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/2021-census/results.
Scotland's census was moved to 2022 so there may not be data available yet. Please see their website for information: https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk.
With regards to UK Census data, the publication of UK Census 2021 and 2022 outputs is dependent on the availability of Scotland's Census 2022 data.
Contact details for NRS and NISRA are provided below:
NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND
Tel: 0131 3144299
Email: statisticscustomerservices@nrscotland.gov.uk
Website: www.nrscotland.gov.uk
NORTHERN IRELAND STATISTICS & RESEARCH AGENCY
Tel: 02890 255156
Email: census@nisra.gov.uk
Website: http://www.nisra.gov.uk/census
Q3.
Unfortunately, we do not hold this information. The Home Office (HO) may be better placed to assist with your enquiry. They can be contacted at MigrationStatsEnquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk.
You may also find the following links useful:
Downloads associated with request
- Nomis Navigation Instructions (469.1 kB pdf)
- TS012_Country_of_birth_(detailed)_Census_2021 (22.1 kB xlsx)