More than half of Korean foreign-born adults had a bachelor’s or higher degree. In 2007, 51.3 percent of the 850,000 Korean-born adults age 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher compared to 27.0 percent among the 31.6 million foreign-born adults.
Over half of all Korean immigrants resided in California, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. In 2007, California had the largest number of Korean immigrants (322,628, or 30.9 percent), followed by New York (95,265, or 9.1 percent), New Jersey (73,033, or 7.0 percent), and Virginia (51,685, or 5.0 percent).
Together, these four states accounted for 52.7 percent (542,611) of all Korean-born immigrants.
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA was the metropolitan area with the largest number of Korean born (217,874, or 20.9 percent), followed by New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA (145,427, or 13.9 percent); Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV (59,377, or 5.7 percent); Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI (40,578, or 3.9 percent); Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (37,211, or 3.6 percent); and Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA (29,498, or 2.8 percent).
These six metropolitan areas accounted for over half (50.8 percent) of the 1.0 million Korean immigrants in 2007.
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