Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Seattle is/was 70% white?

I was looking up City of Seattle race statistics and here are the results from the 2000 U.S. Census:

Race
One race 538226 95.54%
White 394889 70.09%
Black or African American 47541 8.44%
American Indian and Alaska Native 5659 1%
Asian 73910 13.12%
Asian indian 2843 0.5%
Chinese 19415 3.45%
Filipino 15867 2.82%
Japanese 8979 1.59%
Korean 4863 0.86%
Vietnamese 11943 2.12%
Other Asian 10000 1.78%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 2804 0.5%
Native Hawaiian 409 0.07%
Guamanian or Chamorro 364 0.06%
Samoan 1391 0.25%
Other Pacific Islander 640 0.11%
Some other race 13423 2.38%
Two or more races 25148 4.46%

Hispanic or Latino and race
Total Population 563374 100.00%
Hispanic or Latino(of any race) 29719 5.28%
Mexican 17886 3.17%
Puerto Rican 1466 0.26%
Cuban 759 0.13%
Other Hispanic or Latino 9608 1.71%
Not Hispanic or Latino 533655 94.72%
White alone 382532 67.9%

I'm not entirely sure what or why it means that "Hispanic or Latino" has been separated out. It seemed a little confusing! But I was rather struck that, at least about ten years ago, Seattle was a pretty "white" city. It doesn't feel like much has changed, I'm wondering what the new census results will be?

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