Last week, the Census Bureau released information never before available—detailed population and housing information from the 2010 Census, such as age, relationship and homeownership for census tracts, towns, counties, and the state level.
Although the vast majority (97%) of Vermont households are headed by someone who is white alone, 8,000 households affiliated with a wide variety of non-white racial and ethnic groups. The largest of these household groupings (3,040 households) identified themselves as "American Indian and Alaska Native alone or in combination with one or more other races". The next largest groupings were households who identified themselves as "Asian alone or in combination with one or more races" (2,572 households) and "Black or African American alone or in combination with one or more other races" (2,066 households).
Among Vermont households who identified exclusively with a single country outside of the U.S., the most prevalent were Mexican. As with virtually all minority groups in the state, the rate of homeownership among these households is much lower than for white households—41%.
VHFA’s research staff, Leslie Black-Plumeau and Maura Collins, will continue to analyze these data and are available to discuss their work further.
Read the Census Bureau’s press release.
Vermont households identifying with a single foreign country
| Households | Homeownership rate | |
| Mexican | 631 | 41% |
| Puerto Rican | 584 | 44% |
| Chinese | 583 | 57% |
| Spaniard | 296 | 76% |
| Vietnamese | 26 | 53% |
| Korean | 172 | 45% |
| Cuban | 158 | 54% |
| Japanese | 149 | 55% |
| Filipino alone | 138 | 54% |
| Colombian | 80 | 51% |
| Argentinean | 59 | 58% |
| Peruvian | 58 | 60% |
| Dominican | 56 | 32% |
| Thai | 48 | 44% |
| Bhutanese | 43 | 0% |
| Ecuadorian | 40 | 53% |
| Chilean | 35 | 66% |
| Pakistani | 32 | 59% |
| Salvadoran | 30 | 33% |
| Guatemalan | 25 | 40% |
| Burmese | 25 | 4% |
| Honduran | 22 | 41% |
| Nepalese | 21 | 33% |
Data source: Census 2010, Summary File 2.