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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 490 100.0%
Europe 94 19.2%
    Northern Europe 40 8.2%
      United Kingdom 40 8.2%
      Ireland 0 0.0%
      Sweden 0 0.0%
    Western Europe 27 5.5%
      Austria 0 0.0%
      France 0 0.0%
      Germany 27 5.5%
      Netherlands 0 0.0%
    Southern Europe 13 2.7%
      Greece 0 0.0%
      Italy 0 0.0%
      Portugal 0 0.0%
      Spain 13 2.7%
   Eastern Europe 14 2.9%
      Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) 0 0.0%
      Hungary 0 0.0%
      Poland 2 0.4%
      Romania 6 1.2%
      Belarus 0 0.0%
      Russia 0 0.0%
      Ukraine 6 1.2%
      Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 0.0%
      Yugoslavia 0 0.0%
   Europe, not elsewhere classified 0 0.0%
Asia 18 3.7%
   Eastern Asia 14 2.9%
      China 5 1.0%
            Hong Kong 0 0.0%
            Taiwan 0 0.0%
      Japan 0 0.0%
      Korea 9 1.8%
   South Central Asia 2 0.4%
      Afghanistan 0 0.0%
      Bangladesh 0 0.0%
      India 2 0.4%
      Iran 0 0.0%
      Pakistan 0 0.0%
   South Eastern Asia 2 0.4%
      Cambodia 0 0.0%
      Indonesia 0 0.0%
      Laos 0 0.0%
      Malaysia 0 0.0%
      Philippines 2 0.4%
      Thailand 0 0.0%
      Vietnam 0 0.0%
   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 0 0.0%
   Eastern Africa 0 0.0%
      Ethiopia 0 0.0%
   Middle Africa 0 0.0%
   Northern Africa 0 0.0%
      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 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 364 74.3%
   Caribbean 4 0.8%
      Barbados 0 0.0%
      Cuba 2 0.4%
      Dominican Republic 0 0.0%
      Haiti 0 0.0%
      Jamaica 0 0.0%
      Trinidad and Tobago 0 0.0%
   Central America 353 72.0%
      Mexico 351 71.6%
      Other Central America 2 0.4%
            Costa Rica 0 0.0%
            El Salvador 0 0.0%
            Guatemala 0 0.0%
            Honduras 0 0.0%
            Nicaragua 2 0.4%
            Panama 0 0.0%
   South America 7 1.4%
      Argentina 0 0.0%
      Bolivia 0 0.0%
      Brazil 2 0.4%
      Chile 0 0.0%
      Colombia 0 0.0%
      Ecuador 5 1.0%
      Guyana 0 0.0%
      Peru 0 0.0%
      Venezuela 0 0.0%
Northern America 14 2.9%
   Canada 14 2.9%
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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