Source: UC DAVIS RURAL MIGRATION NEWS, 9/13/21


Demographics. The 2017-18 NAWS found that 68 percent of crop workers were born abroad, including two thirds who were born in Mexico, so that 44 percent of all crop workers are Mexican-born. Almost half of the Mexican-born crop workers are from west-central Mexican states such as Jalisco and Michoacán, almost 30 percent were born in northern states such as Sinaloa, and a quarter were born in southern Mexican states such as Oaxaca. The major change is the declining share of Mexican-born workers from northern Mexican states and the rising share from southern Mexican states.
45% of Mexican-born US crop workers are from the West Central states

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