Salt Lake City's foreign-born residents: demographics of a dynamic population

Salt Lake City's population includes over 30,000 residents born outside the United States. Today's foreign-born city residents are older, more highly educated, more economically stable, and more fluent in English than foreign-born residents ten years ago. Foreign-born Salt Lake City residents account for 15% of the city population and 17% of the city's labor force. Most are working gage adults born in Latin America or Asia who speak English and have lived in the United States for more than a decade.