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 Hispanoamericano

525 E FRONT ST, PLAINFIELD, NJ 07060-2288

El Centro Hispanoamericano is a nonprofit organization in Plainfield, New Jersey that serves immigrants and refugees.

El Centro Hispanoamericano serves Latino immigrants and refugees in New Jersey with affordable immigration legal services, ESL and citizenship classes, food and clothing assistance, referrals, and advocacy.

Mission

The Organization's mission is to help meet the needs of immigrants in New Jersey through affordable legal services social services referrals education and cultural programs...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “advocacy, social service referral, community education and organizing, and cultural programs”
  • Case management: “Maria Grana – Case Manager Supervisor”
  • Citizenship: “Citizenship Classes: For immigrants applying for their naturalization.”
  • Cultural programming: “legal services, social services, education, community advocacy, organizing, and cultural programs”
  • Emergency / basic needs: “Used Clothes Distribution: Clothes for women, children, and men.”
  • ESL / English: “English as a Second Language Classes: Saturdays 9am – 12:30pm.”
  • Food assistance: “Food Distributions: Tuesdays 10am – 12pm.”
  • Interpretation / translation: “5 translating documents;”
  • Legal / immigration: “El Centro was formed to provide legal services regarding immigration matters to indigent immigrants.”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

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Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Service area: New Jersey.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider

Contact

Founded 1986. IRS NTEE code I80Z. Revenue $100,000-499,999. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 22-2487067.

Other organizations in Plainfield

All organizations in New Jersey

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).