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.

Refugee Support Center

401 NC 54 Bypass, E15, Carolina Apts. Office Building, Carrboro, NC 27510

Refugee Support Center is a nonprofit organization in Carrboro, North Carolina that serves immigrants and refugees.

RCP is a Carrboro, NC grassroots mutual-aid network serving 2,000+ refugee and immigrant members (largely Burmese, Latino, Afghan, and Arab) with community-based interpretation/language navigation, ESL and citizenship prep, after-school tutoring, immigration legal and tax assistance, healthcare navigation, and language-access advocacy.

Mission

Refugee Support Services Education - Citizenship test preparation, ESL classes, School supplies, After school tutoring. 160+ refugees supported. Legal Services - Immigration, Legal Assistance, Legal Representation, Tax Preparation, Name Changes. 240+ refugees supported. Financial Assistance - Housing, Food, Car Repairs, Medical / Dental expenses, Non-Consumable essential items (Diapers, Household Supplies). 800+ refugees supported. Education - Citizenship test preparation, ESL classes, School supplies, After school tutoring. 150+ refugees supported. Legal Services - Immigration, Legal Assistance, Legal Representation, Tax Prep, Name Changes. 210+ refugees supported.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “institutional organizing around language access practices and policies”
  • Case management: “provided linguistic and culturally-aligned support to Members as they navigate public schools, housing, health insurance, job applications, citizenship exams”
  • Citizenship: “Citizenship test preparation”
  • Education / youth: “After school tutoring”
  • ESL / English: “ESL classes”
  • Financial literacy: “Tax Prep, Name Changes”
  • Health education: “community health forums conducted in people's primary language”
  • Interpretation / translation: “Language Navigator, a community interpreter to accompany them to any appointment”
  • Legal / immigration: “Legal Services - Immigration, Legal Assistance, Legal Representation”
  • Transportation: “providing transportation, accompanying to appointments”

Languages

Services delivered in Arabic, Spanish, Dari, Pashto, Karen, Burmese, Swahili, French.

Website in English only.

Communities served

Burmese, Hispanic/Latino, Afghan, Arab, Congolese.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider

Contact

Founded 2014. IRS NTEE code P20. Revenue $197,652. Latest Form 990: 2024. EIN 46-3944698.

Other organizations in Carrboro

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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).