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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 438 100.0%
Europe 87 19.9%
    Northern Europe 20 4.6%
      United Kingdom 17 3.9%
      Ireland 0 0.0%
      Sweden 0 0.0%
    Western Europe 45 10.3%
      Austria 0 0.0%
      France 0 0.0%
      Germany 38 8.7%
      Netherlands 7 1.6%
    Southern Europe 0 0.0%
      Greece 0 0.0%
      Italy 0 0.0%
      Portugal 0 0.0%
      Spain 0 0.0%
   Eastern Europe 22 5.0%
      Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) 0 0.0%
      Hungary 0 0.0%
      Poland 7 1.6%
      Romania 0 0.0%
      Belarus 0 0.0%
      Russia 7 1.6%
      Ukraine 0 0.0%
      Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0.0%
      Yugoslavia 0 0.0%
   Europe, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Asia 67 15.3%
   Eastern Asia 24 5.5%
      China 12 2.7%
            Hong Kong 0 0.0%
            Taiwan 0 0.0%
      Japan 3 0.7%
      Korea 9 2.1%
   South Central Asia 15 3.4%
      Afghanistan 0 0.0%
      Bangladesh 0 0.0%
      India 15 3.4%
      Iran 0 0.0%
      Pakistan 0 0.0%
   South Eastern Asia 28 6.4%
      Cambodia 18 4.1%
      Indonesia 0 0.0%
      Laos 4 0.9%
      Malaysia 0 0.0%
      Philippines 0 0.0%
      Thailand 0 0.0%
      Vietnam 6 1.4%
   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 4 0.9%
   Eastern Africa 2 0.5%
      Ethiopia 0 0.0%
   Middle Africa 0 0.0%
   Northern Africa 2 0.5%
      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 3 0.7%
   Australia and New Zealand Subregion 3 0.7%
      Australia 2 0.5%
   Melanesia 0 0.0%
   Micronesia 0 0.0%
   Polynesia 0 0.0%
   Oceania, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Latin America 255 58.2%
   Caribbean 5 1.1%
      Barbados 0 0.0%
      Cuba 5 1.1%
      Dominican Republic 0 0.0%
      Haiti 0 0.0%
      Jamaica 0 0.0%
      Trinidad and Tobago 0 0.0%
   Central America 243 55.5%
      Mexico 238 54.3%
      Other Central America 5 1.1%
            Costa Rica 0 0.0%
            El Salvador 0 0.0%
            Guatemala 5 1.1%
            Honduras 0 0.0%
            Nicaragua 0 0.0%
            Panama 0 0.0%
   South America 7 1.6%
      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 7 1.6%
Northern America 22 5.0%
   Canada 22 5.0%
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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