The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) is an interstate, intercounty and intercity agency that provides comprehensive and coordinated planning for the orderly growth of the Delaware Valley region. As the region's metropolitan planning organization (MPO), the Commission provides technical assistance and services to its member state and local governments, the private sector and the public. Delaware Valley Data is our periodic series of free data bulletins and complementary analytical reports and reference guides. This data bulletin contains information from Census 2000 Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics, issued by the United States Census Bureau in May 2001. All information in this bulletin is derived from the 100-percent data compiled from the "short form" questionnaire filled out by all respondents to the 2000 Census.

This bulletin includes municipal-level data on race and Hispanic origin for DVRPC's extended 28-county data service area. The Commission's extended service area includes the nine DVRPC member counties as well as 19 surrounding counties in Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania (see map on page 6). Additional demographic characteristics on age and sex; household relationships and types; and housing tenure and occupancy can be found in Regional Data Bulletins 68, 70 and 71, respectively.

Table 1 summarizes the data included in this bulletin for the nine-county DVRPC region, while Table 2 provides regional and sub-regional totals. Table 3 provides data on race as of April 1, 2000, for each minor civil division in the 28-county extended data service area, and Table 4 provides data on Hispanic origin.

The following variables were selected for this summary:

The Census Bureau defines the above population variables as follows:

White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "white", or report such entries as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab or Polish.

Black or African American: A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "Black African, Afro-American or Negro, or provide written entries such as African American, Afro-American, Kenyan, Nigerian or Haitian.

American Indian or Alaska Native: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North or South America (including Central America), and who maintain a tribal affiliation or community commitment.

Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia or the Indian Sub-continent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand and Vietnam.

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa or other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicate their race as "Native Hawaiian, Guamanian (or Chamorro), Samoan, and "other Pacific Islander".

Some Other Race: Includes all other responses not included in "White", "Black or African American", "American Indian or Alaska Native", "Asian" and the "Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander" categories described above.

Two or More Races: People may have chosen to provide two or more races, either by checking two or more race response check boxes, by providing multiple write-in responses or by some combination of check boxes and write-in responses. The race response categories shown on the questionnaire are collapsed into the five minimum race categories identified by the Office of Management and Budget and the Census "Some Other Race" category.

Hispanic origin: Persons of Hispanic origin are those who classify themselves in one of the specific Hispanic origin categories listed on the questionnaire (Mexican, Puerto Rican or Cuban) as well as those who indicated that they were of "other Spanish/Hispanic" origin. Persons of "other Spanish/Hispanic" origin are those whose origins are from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Central or South America or the Dominican Republic, or they are persons of Hispanic origin identifying themselves generally as Spanish, Spanish-American, Hispanic, Hispano, Latino, and so on. Origin can be viewed as the ancestry, nationality group, lineage or country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. Persons of Hispanic origin can be of any race.

• New Morgan Borough was formed from portions of Robeson and Caernavon townships in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
• Birmingham Township, Delaware County, officially changed its name to Chadds Ford Township in January 1997.
• A dashed line () indicates that the information is not available.
• This data bulletin was created from the latest electronic files available from the Census Bureau and may include data which has been updated from previously published data bulletins.

• "9-county DVRPC region" consists of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania and Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer counties in New Jersey.
• "28-county extended data service region" consists of the 9-county DVRPC region and the surrounding 19 counties, which includes portions of Delaware and Maryland.
• "Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City CMSA" consists of the Philadelphia PMSA region, the Atlantic City -Cape May PMSA, the Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton PMSA, and the Wilmington- Newark PMSA.
• "Philadelphia PMSA" consists of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties (PA) and Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties (New Jersey). "Atlantic City-Cape May PMSA" consists of Atlantic and Cape May counties (New Jersey). "Trenton PMSA" consists of Mercer County (New Jersey). "Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton PMSA" consists of Cumberland County (New Jersey). "Wilmington-Newark PMSA" consists of New Castle County (Delaware) and Cecil County (Maryland).
• The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) changed their definition of CMSA and PMSA in 1992. Any historical comparison of this data with earlier data should be done with caution.

The remainder of this data bulletin will be available shortly.

Data bulletin #69 is one of a series of bulletins designed to disseminate information to member state, county and local governments and other interested parties. For more information on Data Bulletins and Analytical Data Reports, please visit the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission's website (www.dvrpc.org) or contact DVRPC at the telephone number below.

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission was established in 1965 by interstate compact between Pennsylvania and New Jersey to plan for the orderly growth and development of the region, and to provide a variety of planning and technical assistance services responding to regional issues. DVRPC maintains a significant database for twenty-eight counties encompassing New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Included in the database are data profiles at the regional, county and municipal level and for other census geography as requested. DVRPC produces a diverse range of services, including demographic and economic data and projections; mapping and aerial photography; computer assisted mapping; geographic information systems; impact studies; and policy and program development.

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