Displaced after Disaster

Hundreds of thousands of adults left Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and settled in more than 500 counties across the US. Nearly 60 of those counties received almost two-thirds of climate-displaced Puerto Ricans.

Estimated number of adult migrants from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

500–840

841–1,510

1,511–2,580

2,581–6,120

6,121 or more

Other counties that received climate-displaced people from Puerto Rico^a

Counties that received the largest number of adult migrants from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Share of adult migrants from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by state

Source: Urban Institute credit bureau data, August 2017 and August 2020.

Notes: Calculations are based on a 2 percent random sample of adults with a credit file in August 2017. To estimate the number of adults migrants, we assume 11 percent of the adult migrant population in 2017 did not have a credit file.

^aSampled counties with fewer than 500 estimated adult migrants from Puerto Rico.