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QT-P15. Region and Country or Area of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population: 2000

Region and country or area Number Percent
     
         Foreign-born population 467 100.0%
Europe 63 13.5%
    Northern Europe 30 6.4%
      United Kingdom 30 6.4%
      Ireland 0 0.0%
      Sweden 0 0.0%
    Western Europe 22 4.7%
      Austria 0 0.0%
      France 0 0.0%
      Germany 22 4.7%
      Netherlands 0 0.0%
    Southern Europe 8 1.7%
      Greece 0 0.0%
      Italy 8 1.7%
      Portugal 0 0.0%
      Spain 0 0.0%
   Eastern Europe 3 0.6%
      Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) 0 0.0%
      Hungary 0 0.0%
      Poland 0 0.0%
      Romania 3 0.6%
      Belarus 0 0.0%
      Russia 0 0.0%
      Ukraine 0 0.0%
      Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0.0%
      Yugoslavia 0 0.0%
   Europe, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Asia 33 7.1%
   Eastern Asia 27 5.8%
      China 4 0.9%
            Hong Kong 0 0.0%
            Taiwan 0 0.0%
      Japan 7 1.5%
      Korea 16 3.4%
   South Central Asia 0 0.0%
      Afghanistan 0 0.0%
      Bangladesh 0 0.0%
      India 0 0.0%
      Iran 0 0.0%
      Pakistan 0 0.0%
   South Eastern Asia 6 1.3%
      Cambodia 0 0.0%
      Indonesia 0 0.0%
      Laos 0 0.0%
      Malaysia 0 0.0%
      Philippines 5 1.1%
      Thailand 0 0.0%
      Vietnam 1 0.2%
   Western Asia 0 0.0%
      Iraq 0 0.0%
      Israel 0 0.0%
      Jordan 0 0.0%
      Lebanon 0 0.0%
      Syria 0 0.0%
      Turkey 0 0.0%
      Armenia 0 0.0%
   Asia, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Africa 2 0.4%
   Eastern Africa 0 0.0%
      Ethiopia 0 0.0%
   Middle Africa 0 0.0%
   Northern Africa 2 0.4%
      Egypt 0 0.0%
   Southern Africa 0 0.0%
      South Africa 0 0.0%
   Western Africa 0 0.0%
      Ghana 0 0.0%
      Nigeria 0 0.0%
      Sierra Leone 0 0.0%
   Africa, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Oceania 8 1.7%
   Australia and New Zealand Subregion 8 1.7%
      Australia 8 1.7%
   Melanesia 0 0.0%
   Micronesia 0 0.0%
   Polynesia 0 0.0%
   Oceania, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Latin America 346 74.1%
   Caribbean 2 0.4%
      Barbados 0 0.0%
      Cuba 0 0.0%
      Dominican Republic 0 0.0%
      Haiti 0 0.0%
      Jamaica 2 0.4%
      Trinidad and Tobago 0 0.0%
   Central America 342 73.2%
      Mexico 328 70.2%
      Other Central America 14 3.0%
            Costa Rica 0 0.0%
            El Salvador 3 0.6%
            Guatemala 7 1.5%
            Honduras 4 0.9%
            Nicaragua 0 0.0%
            Panama 0 0.0%
   South America 2 0.4%
      Argentina 0 0.0%
      Bolivia 0 0.0%
      Brazil 0 0.0%
      Chile 0 0.0%
      Colombia 0 0.0%
      Ecuador 0 0.0%
      Guyana 0 0.0%
      Peru 0 0.0%
      Venezuela 0 0.0%
Northern America 15 3.2%
   Canada 15 3.2%
Born at sea 0 0.0%

 

Date: October 2, 2002

[Data based on a sample]
(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrix PCT19.
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