St. Joseph Community Partnership Fund

PolicyLink and PERE 91 An Equity Profile of Orange County 12% 61% 26% 1% 50% 6% 6% 4% 3% 31% Mexico Korea Vietnam Philippines Japan All other Large proportions of eligible-to-naturalize adults are Latino and Asian American/Pacific Islander One aspect of connection is the ability of residents to engage and participate civically, and citizenship is an important component of that. Citizenship is tied to important resources from the ability to vote and to access to critical services. There are over 180,000 adult immigrants in Orange County who are eligible to naturalize but have not yet done so. Increasing naturalization rates in the county would reduce this number and help improve the level of voter representation and civic engagement. Over half of all eligible-to-naturalize adults in Orange County are Latino (61 percent), while about a quarter (26 percent) are Asian American/Pacific Islander. Half of these eligible-to- naturalize adults are from Mexico and the next largest groups are from Korea and Vietnam (6 percent each), followed by the Philippines and Japan. One quarter of eligible-to-naturalize adults are Asian American/Pacific Islander Connectedness 91. Eligible-to-Naturalize Adults by Race/Ethnicity, 2016 Source: USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration analysis of 2016 5- year Integrated Public Use Microdata Series and 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Note: See "Data and methods" for details on how the eligible to naturalize were estimated. Source: USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration analysis of 2016 5- year Integrated Public Use Microdata Series and 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Note: See "Data and methods" for details on how the eligible to naturalize were estimated. Half of eligible-to-naturalize adults are from Mexico 92. Eligible-to-Naturalize Adults by Country of Origin, 2016 38th 39th 45th 46th 47th White Black Latino Asian or Pacific Islander Mixed/other

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