Where refugees in Oregon are arriving from
Within five months after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in early February 2022, the U.S. admitted more than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. Most of these refugees were admitted through a special program called humanitarian parole, which falls outside the scope of the data tracking carried out by the Refugee Processing Center. Humanitarian parole allows refugees who meet certain criteria to gain temporary legal status in the U.S. and applications are processed differently than traditional refugee resettlement applications.
During September 2022, the U.S. admitted most refugees from either the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma (also referred to as Myanmar), or Syria, with about 60% of all refugees admitted hailing from one of those three countries. Each nation struggles with a unique set of circumstances that can make their citizens unsafe if they stay in their home country.
For the last three decades, the DRC has been struggling with a vast humanitarian crisis that has left millions of people displaced, both internally and externally, with many people fleeing to neighboring countries. Myanmar's sitting government is currently engaged in a war against its people and the country is expected to have approximately 1.2 million refugees seeking asylum by the end of 2022. Syria has seen nearly 7 million refugees leave the country since 2011 while a longstanding civil war rages and has displaced an additional nearly 7 million people internally.
Stacker referenced data from The Refugee Processing Center to compile statistics on the number of refugees and their countries of origin resettled in Oregon in September 2022.
September refugee statistics
Countries where refugees arrived from in September
Oregon
#1. Ukraine: 18
#2. Syria: 12
#3. Afghanistan: 9
#4. Moldova: 7
#5. Ethiopia: 4
National
#1. Democratic Republic of the Congo: 2,181
#2. Burma: 658
#3. Syria: 493
#4. Afghanistan: 429
#5. Ukraine: 370
States that accepted the most refugees in September
#1. Texas: 489
#2. California: 363
#3. Washington: 328
#4. Ohio: 325
#5. Kentucky: 320
Read on to see the countries that Oregon has accepted the most refugees from since October 2022
#1. Ukraine
Refugees that arrived from Ukraine since October 2022
Oregon: 71
National: 1,610
Top states
#1. Washington: 472
#2. California: 353
#3. New York: 112
#4. Pennsylvania: 73
#5. Oregon: 71
#2. Syria
Refugees that arrived from Syria since October 2022
Oregon: 62
National: 4,556
Top states
#1. California: 514
#2. Michigan: 446
#3. Texas: 358
#4. Pennsylvania: 350
#5. New York: 316
#3. Democratic Republic of the Congo
Refugees that arrived from Democratic Republic of the Congo since October 2022
Oregon: 54
National: 7,810
Top states
#1. Kentucky: 919
#2. Texas: 719
#3. Ohio: 535
#4. Arizona: 419
#5. North Carolina: 371
#4. Burma
Refugees that arrived from Burma since October 2022
Oregon: 25
National: 2,156
Top states
#1. Wisconsin: 323
#2. New York: 218
#3. Texas: 212
#4. Indiana: 155
#5. Illinois: 148
#5. Afghanistan
Refugees that arrived from Afghanistan since October 2022
Oregon: 23
National: 1,618
Top states
#1. California: 270
#2. Texas: 209
#3. Virginia: 201
#4. Colorado: 113
#5. Washington: 88
#6. Moldova
Refugees that arrived from Moldova since October 2022
Oregon: 17
National: 507
Top states
#1. Washington: 153
#2. California: 152
#3. North Carolina: 34
#4. Florida: 27
#5. Minnesota: 25
#7. Burundi
Refugees that arrived from Burundi since October 2022
Oregon: 14
National: 185
Top states
#1. Tennessee: 19
#2. Texas: 18
#3. Wisconsin: 14
#3. Idaho: 14
#3. Oregon: 14
#8. Sudan
Refugees that arrived from Sudan since October 2022
Oregon: 8
National: 1,669
Top states
#1. North Carolina: 132
#2. Texas: 107
#3. New York: 86
#4. Nebraska: 81
#5. Idaho: 80
#9. Rwanda
Refugees that arrived from Rwanda since October 2022
Oregon: 7
National: 88
Top states
#1. Texas: 19
#2. North Carolina: 12
#3. Idaho: 11
#4. New York: 9
#5. Kentucky: 8
#10. Iraq
Refugees that arrived from Iraq since October 2022
Oregon: 6
National: 498
Top states
#1. Michigan: 96
#2. California: 65
#3. Texas: 51
#4. Arizona: 35
#5. New York: 31
#11. Ethiopia
Refugees that arrived from Ethiopia since October 2022
Oregon: 5
National: 252
Top states
#1. Minnesota: 97
#2. Maryland: 23
#3. Washington: 22
#4. Colorado: 15
#5. Georgia: 13
#12. Cambodia
Refugees that arrived from Cambodia since October 2022
Oregon: 4
National: 32
Top states
#1. Rhode Island: 9
#2. Texas: 7
#3. Georgia: 5
#4. Oregon: 4
#4. North Carolina: 4
#12. Somalia
Refugees that arrived from Somalia since October 2022
Oregon: 4
National: 456
Top states
#1. Minnesota: 128
#2. Ohio: 49
#3. New York: 29
#4. Washington: 24
#5. Arizona: 21
#14. El Salvador
Refugees that arrived from El Salvador since October 2022
Oregon: 2
National: 519
Top states
#1. California: 122
#2. Maryland: 86
#3. Texas: 43
#4. New York: 36
#5. North Carolina: 31
#14. Eritrea
Refugees that arrived from Eritrea since October 2022
Oregon: 2
National: 325
Top states
#1. Georgia: 32
#2. Iowa: 30
#3. Arizona: 27
#4. Washington: 23
#5. Ohio: 20
#16. Iran
Refugees that arrived from Iran since October 2022
Oregon: 1
National: 255
Top states
#1. California: 71
#2. Texas: 42
#3. Washington: 17
#3. Georgia: 17
#5. Virginia: 16
#16. Guatemala
Refugees that arrived from Guatemala since October 2022
Oregon: 1
National: 1,085
Top states
#1. California: 219
#2. Texas: 121
#3. Florida: 67
#4. New Jersey: 64
#5. Pennsylvania: 58
#16. Venezuela
Refugees that arrived from Venezuela since October 2022
Oregon: 1
National: 163
Top states
#1. Florida: 42
#2. Texas: 26
#3. Ohio: 15
#4. Georgia: 12
#5. Washington: 11
