One of the wealthier states in the country, Maryland residents are better off than the average American by a number of socioeconomic measures, regardless of place of birth. Some 10.8% of foreign-born state residents live in poverty, far less than the 18.6% poverty rate for immigrants nationwide and just 1.0 percentage point more than the 9.8% poverty rate for U.S.-born Maryland residents. Nationwide, the poverty rate among immigrants is 3.6 percentage points greater than for natural-born citizens.
