Atlanta Immigrant Population Growing
ATLANTA - The Census Bureau says metro Atlanta's immigrant population has continued to grow despite the economic recession.
New census figures show the 28-county metro Atlanta area added 42,000 foreign-bo residents between 2007 and 2009. That's an increase of 6 percent.
The increase brought the Atlanta area's total immigrant population to nearly 750,000 last year, accounting for nearly 13 percent of its population.
The Washington think tank the Brookings Institution says metro Atlanta bucked a trend seen in many U.S. metropolitan areas where immigration leveled off or declined during the global recession.
Audrey Singer, a Brookings senior fellow, says that's because the Atlanta area seems to have fared better economically than other large American cities.
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