CLEVELAND, Ohio – Nearly 20,000 Ohioans were born in countries on President Donald Trump’s travel ban list, estimates from the Census Bureau show.
Nearly half of those are natives of Somalia living in the Columbus area.
The numbers are small, in part, because Ohio as a whole has a small number of foreign-born residents – just 4.1 percent in comparison to the nationwide share of 13.2 percent who are foreign-born.
Here are the estimates by country for the 19,680 Ohio residents who are natives from places on the travel ban list:
- Somalia, 9,299.
- Iran, 3,752.
- Iraq, 3,247.
- Syria, 2,537
- Sudan, 679.
- Yemen, 166.
The Census Bureau survey, conducted from 2011 through 2015, provided no estimate for Libya.
Among the 3,745 people from these countries living in the seven-county Akron-Cleveland area, the largest groups are from Iran (1,514), Syria (1,049) and Iraq (857).
The Somalia population in the Columbus metro area is estimated at 8,910. There are also an estimated 1,385 natives of Iraq and 1,103 natives of Iran in the Columbus area.
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