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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 826 100.0%
Europe 304 36.8%
    Northern Europe 84 10.2%
      United Kingdom 68 8.2%
      Ireland 0 0.0%
      Sweden 16 1.9%
    Western Europe 116 14.0%
      Austria 0 0.0%
      France 22 2.7%
      Germany 83 10.0%
      Netherlands 11 1.3%
    Southern Europe 46 5.6%
      Greece 10 1.2%
      Italy 21 2.5%
      Portugal 0 0.0%
      Spain 9 1.1%
   Eastern Europe 58 7.0%
      Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) 15 1.8%
      Hungary 9 1.1%
      Poland 12 1.5%
      Romania 0 0.0%
      Belarus 0 0.0%
      Russia 13 1.6%
      Ukraine 9 1.1%
      Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0.0%
      Yugoslavia 0 0.0%
   Europe, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Asia 184 22.3%
   Eastern Asia 106 12.8%
      China 75 9.1%
            Hong Kong 0 0.0%
            Taiwan 7 0.8%
      Japan 5 0.6%
      Korea 26 3.1%
   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 20 2.4%
      Cambodia 0 0.0%
      Indonesia 14 1.7%
      Laos 0 0.0%
      Malaysia 0 0.0%
      Philippines 6 0.7%
      Thailand 0 0.0%
      Vietnam 0 0.0%
   Western Asia 58 7.0%
      Iraq 0 0.0%
      Israel 29 3.5%
      Jordan 16 1.9%
      Lebanon 8 1.0%
      Syria 0 0.0%
      Turkey 5 0.6%
      Armenia 0 0.0%
   Asia, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Africa 29 3.5%
   Eastern Africa 5 0.6%
      Ethiopia 0 0.0%
   Middle Africa 0 0.0%
   Northern Africa 16 1.9%
      Egypt 5 0.6%
   Southern Africa 8 1.0%
      South Africa 8 1.0%
   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 0 0.0%
   Australia and New Zealand Subregion 0 0.0%
      Australia 0 0.0%
   Melanesia 0 0.0%
   Micronesia 0 0.0%
   Polynesia 0 0.0%
   Oceania, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Latin America 231 28.0%
   Caribbean 48 5.8%
      Barbados 0 0.0%
      Cuba 13 1.6%
      Dominican Republic 0 0.0%
      Haiti 0 0.0%
      Jamaica 0 0.0%
      Trinidad and Tobago 35 4.2%
   Central America 163 19.7%
      Mexico 154 18.6%
      Other Central America 9 1.1%
            Costa Rica 0 0.0%
            El Salvador 0 0.0%
            Guatemala 9 1.1%
            Honduras 0 0.0%
            Nicaragua 0 0.0%
            Panama 0 0.0%
   South America 20 2.4%
      Argentina 8 1.0%
      Bolivia 0 0.0%
      Brazil 0 0.0%
      Chile 0 0.0%
      Colombia 5 0.6%
      Ecuador 0 0.0%
      Guyana 2 0.2%
      Peru 0 0.0%
      Venezuela 5 0.6%
Northern America 78 9.4%
   Canada 78 9.4%
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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