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Data for the Central City Area
Counties included: Erie County ,Niagara County
Cities included: Buffalo, NY ,Niagara Falls, NY

Nativity Distribution


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Nativity

This table shows the population and nativity distribution (foreign-born versus those born in the United States) for each group.

The first section of the table (Total Population) shows the overall population distribution by group. Subsequent cells in each column provide both the count and percent for the number of people within the US and foreign-born categories.

  All groups Non Hispanic White Non Hispanic Black Hispanic Asian
TOTAL POPULATION
1990 390,160 257,450 108,768 16,874 3,424
%   66.0 27.9 4.3 0.9
2000 348,325 193,293 120,981 23,190 5,495
%   55.5 34.7 6.7 1.6
BORN IN THE U.S.
1990 371,493 243,996 107,276 15,739 678
%   94.8 98.6 93.3 19.8
2000 332,667 185,402 116,686 21,716 1,368
%   95.9 96.5 93.6 24.9
FOREIGN-BORN
1990 18,732 13,454 1,391 1,020 2,391
%   5.2 1.3 6.0 69.8
2000 15,658 7,891 4,295 1,474 4,127
%   4.1 3.5 6.4 75.1

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