Bangladesh: Immigrant Stories
Bangladeshi Immigrants in the United States
According to the American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-year data, the estimated immigrant population from Bangladesh to the United States is 287,664, which is 0.6% of all the immigrants residing in the United States (46,134,671). The top five states with the highest number of Bangladeshi immigrants live in New York (estimated Bangladeshi immigrant population: 121,662), Michigan (21,017), California (19,208), Texas (18,694), and New Jersey (14,850). Close to 42 percent of all Bangladeshi immigrants in the United States live in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, (estimated Bangladeshi immigrant population: 120,313), followed by Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI (19,554), Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV (15,056), Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (11,659), Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD (10,617).
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Meet a Bangladeshi Immigrant
Senator Saddam Azlan Salim has been a State Senator for District 37 (covering Fairfax City, Falls Church City, and parts of Fairfax County) in the State of Virginia since January 2024. Sen. Salim is a Bangladeshi immigrant, born in 1990 in the Noakhali district of Bangladesh. As of April 2025, he was a member of several committees in the Virginia General Assembly, including Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, Courts of Justice, Privileges and Elections, and Rehabilitation and Social Services. Senator Salim’s 2025 legislative agenda includes policies aimed at reducing gun violence, improving housing supply and affordability, improving the environment, enhancing workplace safety, and raising transparency in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Senator Salim migrated from Bangladesh to the United States as a 10-year-old boy with his family in the year 2000. His family decided to migrate to the United States after a devastating flood in 1998 that put more than half of Bangladesh under water.