Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

El Centro de Servicios Sociales

2800 PEARL AVE, LORAIN, OH 44055-1821

El Centro de Servicios Sociales is a nonprofit organization in Lorain, Ohio that serves immigrants and refugees.

El Centro is a Latino nonprofit in Lorain County, Ohio, providing bilingual senior supportive services, money management/representative payee, food assistance, benefits enrollment, health services, citizenship classes, youth mentoring, and interpretation/transportation to the Hispanic/Latino community.

Mission

El Centro is a Hispanic-Latino non-profit advocacy organization whose mission is to enhance the socio-economic status of the Lorain County community by providing essential social, educational, cultural and community development services.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Benefits enrollment: “Ohio Benefit Bank Do you qualify for Medicaid, SNAP (also known as food stamps), or cash assistance?”
  • Case management: “provide transportation and case management throughout the naturalization process if necessary”
  • Citizenship: “El Centro offers citizenship classes on Saturday mornings in the spring and fall for those preparing for the naturalization exam.”
  • Education / youth: “we provide services to youth from 5th to 8th grade in the 231 Census Tract (South Lorain) and surrounding neighborhoods.”
  • ESL / English: “El Centro also provides English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes through a partnership with Lorain County Community College’s Aspire Program”
  • Financial literacy: “El Centro offers financial empowerment classes to help you get your financial life on the right track.”
  • Food assistance: “El Centro has a food pantry for income-eligible households (200% of federal poverty line); Photo ID and proof of Ohio residency required.”
  • Health education: “health screenings, health education, interpretation, translation the services necessary to improve their mental and physical health”
  • Health / medical: “Some of the services that will be provided are adult annual wellness exams, women's health, Medicare wellness exam, chronic disease management, acute care, etc.”
  • Housing
  • Interpretation / translation
  • Transportation

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Service area: Greater Lorain County.

Federal recognition and registries

  • HUD-approved housing counselling agency

Contact

Founded 1975. IRS NTEE code P840. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 34-1165756.

Other organizations in Lorain

All organizations in Ohio

Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).