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New green cards, county by county

Where new lawful permanent residents settle, which route they came through (family, employment, diversity or humanitarian) and which countries they were born in, for the 200 counties with the most. We read the Department of Homeland Security's county workbooks cell for cell, keep DHS's rounding to the nearest 10 visible, and hold every state's listed sum to the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics total.

Checked October 29, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · Not legal advice

What is in this dataset?

New lawful permanent residents (green card holders) in the 200 U.S. counties with the most, for the two latest fiscal years: admissions by class (immediate relatives, family preference, employment preference, diversity, refugee and asylee adjustments, other) and the ten countries of birth with the most, with state sums set against the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics state totals. Read from the Department of Homeland Security's county workbooks, in which every cell is rounded to the nearest 10; sums are of rounded cells and understate the true figures, and the share of each state's total they cover is given.

Use it to see where new permanent residents settle and from where: which counties receive the most green card holders, whether they come through family, employment, diversity or humanitarian routes, and which countries of birth lead. An immigration practice can size family-based, employment-based and naturalization demand by county. Pair it with the legal-need and uscis-offices datasets by state or county FIPS code. Agents can look up a state and its listed counties, compare up to ten states, or search a county by name.

Records
483
Look up by
42
state
Primary source
483

The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.

Where does the data come from?

Read from the OHSS county workbook for each fiscal year, summed by county into classes of admission and countries of birth; every cell is a multiple of 10, so sums are of rounded cells. County names are matched to FIPS codes by state and name (three exceptions fixed by hand and documented). A gate re-derives every county record from the live workbooks and holds each state's listed sum at or below the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics Table 4 total.

Period covered
October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024
Places
The whole US, states and counties
How often we refresh it
Once a year
The source's next release
June 2027
Records read
October 29, 2026

Official sources

The sources the records cite most

What does a record look like?

The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.

What each of the 26 main columns means
jurisdiction
Two-letter state or territory code, or US for the national record
level
county, state or us
county
5-digit county FIPS code (vintage 2025; the three Connecticut counties OHSS still uses are the crosswalks' former codes); empty for state and US
countyName
County name as the Census Bureau writes it
stateName
State name
fiscalYear
Federal fiscal year (October 1 to September 30)
status
P: read from the primary source
text
One plain sentence with the county's counts
value
Same as admissions_listed
unit
What value counts
admissions_listed
New lawful permanent residents: the sum of the workbook's cells, each rounded to the nearest 10 by OHSS, so it understates the true figure
immediate_relatives
Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens (spouses, children, parents)
family_preference
Family preference categories 1st to 4th
employment
Employment preference categories 1st to 5th
diversity
Diversity Program
refugee_asylee
Refugee and asylee adjustments
other_class
Other classes of admission
top_countries
The ten countries of birth with the most listed admissions in the county, with the count, largest first
admissions_listed_prev
The same county's listed admissions in the previous fiscal year, when it was also on the top 200 list
counties_listed
State and US records: how many top-200 counties are in the sum
state_total_yearbook
State and US records: the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics total for the state (or nation) in the fiscal year
listed_share_pct
admissions_listed as a percent of state_total_yearbook
effectiveFrom
First day of the fiscal year
effectiveTo
Last day of the fiscal year
lastChecked
Date the OHSS files were last read
id
Stable record id: dataset, place and period

How do I use it in my own tools?

greencards_lookup
For one two-letter state or territory code (or US): the state sum and every listed top-200 county in it, by fiscal year, with new lawful permanent residents by class of admission and the top countries of birth. Cells are rounded to 10 by DHS.
greencards_compare
The green card records of up to 10 states (two-letter codes) or US side by side: listed admissions, the Yearbook state total and the share the listed counties cover.
greencards_search
Green card records whose text matches the words given, such as a county name ("Harris County"), a country of birth ("Cuba") or a 5-digit county FIPS code.

How to cite this dataset

You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.

Version
1.0.0, released October 29, 2026
Every version
10.5281/zenodo.23753001 (always points to the newest)
License
CC BY 4.0

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Suggested citation

Probative. (2026). New green cards (lawful permanent residents) by county, country of birth and class of admission (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753002

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Source: Probative, New green cards (lawful permanent residents) by county, country of birth and class of admission, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753002, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Not legal advice. These are counts of people who became lawful permanent residents in the listed counties, rounded by the agency, not a measure of anyone's eligibility, case or need. Questions about a green card or citizenship are for a licensed immigration attorney or an accredited representative.

What changed recently?

  • 2026-10-29 · New lawful permanent residents in the 200 counties with the most, fiscal years 2023 and 2024, by class of admission and top countries of birth, tied to the Yearbook's state totals: 1,007,900 in the listed counties in FY 2024. (source)

The full log is in changes.json.

What are the limits?

  • Only the 200 counties with the most new permanent residents are published; a county that is not listed may still have some. A state's listed counties cover only part of its total, and the page gives the share.
  • DHS rounds every cell to the nearest 10, so a small cell shows 0 and a county's sum of rounded cells understates its true total. Do not subtract two years' counts to measure a small change.
  • Counts are new lawful permanent residents in a fiscal year (October to September), by the county of residence they gave. They include people who adjusted status inside the country and people who arrived with an immigrant visa.
  • The class of admission is the route the person used. Family-based, employment-based, diversity and humanitarian routes are separate; the data do not say who needed a lawyer.
  • Connecticut appears under the three older counties DHS still uses (Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven), not the planning regions the Census Bureau now uses.
  • Each fiscal year has its own list of 200 counties, so a county can be on one year's list and not the next.
  • Records older than 450 days since their last check are marked stale in the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.

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