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2000 | |||
Country of Birth | Population | % of Foreign Born | % of Total Population |
Mexico | 432,288 | 50.58% | 10.35% |
El Salvador | 64,803 | 7.58% | 1.55% |
Vietnam | 49,584 | 5.80% | 1.19% |
India | 30,563 | 3.58% | 0.73% |
Honduras | 19,056 | 2.23% | 0.46% |
China; excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan | 17,213 | 2.01% | 0.41% |
Philippines | 16,381 | 1.92% | 0.39% |
Pakistan | 13,923 | 1.63% | 0.33% |
Guatemala | 13,806 | 1.62% | 0.33% |
Colombia | 13,412 | 1.57% | 0.32% |
Nigeria | 11,182 | 1.31% | 0.27% |
Canada | 9,698 | 1.13% | 0.23% |
Taiwan | 8,998 | 1.05% | 0.22% |
Korea | 7,836 | 0.92% | 0.19% |
Germany | 6,767 | 0.79% | 0.16% |
Cuba | 6,201 | 0.73% | 0.15% |
Iran | 6,082 | 0.71% | 0.15% |
Nicaragua | 4,475 | 0.52% | 0.11% |
Jamaica | 4,278 | 0.50% | 0.10% |
Venezuela | 3,614 | 0.42% | 0.09% |
Hong Kong | 3,588 | 0.42% | 0.09% |
Trinidad and Tobago | 3,560 | 0.42% | 0.09% |
Peru | 3,445 | 0.40% | 0.08% |
Argentina | 3,330 | 0.39% | 0.08% |
Japan | 2,882 | 0.34% | 0.07% |
France | 2,681 | 0.31% | 0.06% |
Lebanon | 2,486 | 0.29% | 0.06% |
Russia | 2,426 | 0.28% | 0.06% |
Brazil | 2,379 | 0.28% | 0.06% |
Ecuador | 2,354 | 0.28% | 0.06% |
Cambodia | 2,230 | 0.26% | 0.05% |
South Africa | 1,981 | 0.23% | 0.05% |
Egypt | 1,947 | 0.23% | 0.05% |
Thailand | 1,836 | 0.21% | 0.04% |
Poland | 1,834 | 0.21% | 0.04% |
Panama | 1,684 | 0.20% | 0.04% |
Bangladesh | 1,677 | 0.20% | 0.04% |
Indonesia | 1,607 | 0.19% | 0.04% |
Dominican Republic | 1,604 | 0.19% | 0.04% |
Netherlands | 1,565 | 0.18% | 0.04% |
Costa Rica | 1,454 | 0.17% | 0.03% |
Malaysia | 1,396 | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Israel | 1,385 | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Chile | 1,379 | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Romania | 1,377 | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Greece | 1,376 | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Australia | 1,335 | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Italy | 1,329 | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Laos | 1,328 | 0.16% | 0.03% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,263 | 0.15% | 0.03% |
Ghana | 1,195 | 0.14% | 0.03% |
Bolivia | 1,191 | 0.14% | 0.03% |
Jordan | 1,167 | 0.14% | 0.03% |
Ethiopia | 1,118 | 0.13% | 0.03% |
Spain | 1,031 | 0.12% | 0.02% |
Turkey | 977 | 0.11% | 0.02% |
Guyana | 936 | 0.11% | 0.02% |
Syria | 929 | 0.11% | 0.02% |
Ireland | 908 | 0.11% | 0.02% |
Iraq | 800 | 0.09% | 0.02% |
Yugoslavia | 795 | 0.09% | 0.02% |
Czechoslovakia | 739 | 0.09% | 0.02% |
Ukraine | 708 | 0.08% | 0.02% |
Hungary | 634 | 0.07% | 0.02% |
Haiti | 581 | 0.07% | 0.01% |
Austria | 515 | 0.06% | 0.01% |
Sweden | 445 | 0.05% | 0.01% |
Barbados | 400 | 0.05% | 0.01% |
Portugal | 327 | 0.04% | 0.01% |
Sierra Leone | 231 | 0.03% | 0.01% |
Belarus | 145 | 0.02% | 0.00% |
Afghanistan | 118 | 0.01% | 0.00% |
Armenia | 8 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Other Countries | 37,893 | 4.43% | 0.91% |
Total Foreign Born | 854,669 | 100.00% | 20.46% |
Total Population | 4,177,646 | ||
Source: U.S. Census, 2000 |