The Asian group should be further broken down, but its small size in The Bronx precludes this. The following maps show the distribution of each of the seven ethnic groups throughout The Bronx. The figures are for each of the 957 Bronx blockgroups and the scale is uniform at one green dot for each 50 persons. Detailed study of poverty rates for each major ethnic group in The Bronx shows that poverty is as much tied to area of residence as it is to ethnicity. The few whites left in the South Bronx seem to be as poor as the minority residents there, while minorities in the other two Bronx areas are overwhelmingly above the poverty line.
Ethnicity seems to be more complex as one gets into specific areas.
Americans and Puerto Ricans are poorest where they are most highly concentrated. On the other hand, Dominicans are not significantly better off than Puerto Ricans. Remember that many different groups comprise the Asian category, and the various Asian groups are not equally distributed throughout The Bronx. The PUMS files enable us to take a closer look at the relation of poverty and ethnicity. Let us control for some of these factors, using the 1990 PUMS from the US Census.