Special 1.A/C Adoption: Number and percentage of children ages 0–17 who are adopted and percentage of adopted children ages 0–17 who are of a different race than their adoptive parent by region and state, 2008

Region and State	Children ages 0–17	Adopted children ages 0–17	Percentage of children who are adopted	Percentage of adopted children who are of a different race^a than their adoptive parent
Total	65,598,900	1,615,805	2	22
Region^b
Northeast	11,202,613	275,798	2	23
Midwest	14,560,345	375,594	3	25
South	24,048,830	579,534	2	17
West	15,787,112	384,879	2	23
State
Alabama	973,888	24,499	3	12
Alaska	160,979	7,117	4	43
Arizona	1,485,906	32,875	2	18
Arkansas	604,284	18,355	3	15
California	8,134,825	175,642	2	19
Colorado	1,092,814	30,788	3	30
Connecticut	744,163	21,076	3	23
Delaware	179,728	4,868	3	12
District of Columbia	93,580	5,126	5	21
Florida	3,523,465	90,803	3	15
Georgia	2,197,201	57,090	3	18
Hawaii	224,144	6,303	3	39
Idaho	376,640	9,897	3	26
Illinois	2,855,522	67,061	2	22
Indiana	1,421,611	33,215	2	24
Iowa	655,215	16,596	3	28
Kansas	641,554	17,291	3	23
Kentucky	890,285	21,626	2	19
Louisiana	941,171	16,087	2	11
Maine	249,242	9,262	4	28
Maryland	1,186,123	27,747	2	20
Massachusetts	1,315,002	34,397	3	25
Michigan	2,157,527	61,567	3	26
Minnesota	1,164,113	30,551	3	30
Mississippi	638,888	15,930	2	9
Missouri	1,265,496	34,601	3	20
Montana	199,245	5,262	3	27
Nebraska	408,417	10,961	3	29
Nevada	593,222	11,493	2	19
New Hampshire	273,885	6,863	3	40
New Jersey	1,860,813	42,517	2	25
New Mexico	432,877	10,563	2	18
New York	3,927,444	85,920	2	21
North Carolina	1,985,804	50,628	3	23
North Dakota	131,743	4,257	3	27
Ohio	2,466,067	62,926	3	24
Oklahoma	785,491	23,991	3	25
Oregon	785,189	26,706	3	26
Pennsylvania	2,501,780	61,334	2	20
Rhode Island	211,043	8,780	4	27
South Carolina	919,985	24,187	3	15
South Dakota	178,251	4,373	2	17
Tennessee	1,290,353	31,647	2	19
Texas	5,882,806	124,948	2	15
Utah	780,952	22,840	3	33
Vermont	119,241	5,649	5	36
Virginia	1,618,312	33,992	2	27
Washington	1,406,425	41,260	3	29
West Virginia	337,466	8,010	2	8
Wisconsin	1,214,829	32,195	3	32
Wyoming	113,894	4,133	4	20
^a Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race. Shown are adopted children whose householder/parent is reported to be of a different race group from the adopted child; the race groups are White alone, Black alone, American Indian and Alaska Native alone, Asian alone or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone, Some other race alone, White and Black, White and American Indian and Alaska Native, White and Asian or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, White and Some other race, or either the adopted child or householder/parent reports a multiple race group combination not listed above.
^b Regions: Northeast includes CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, and VT. South includes AL, AR, DC, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WV. Midwest includes IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, and WI. West includes AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, and WY.
NOTE: This table includes never-married children of the householder, so the adoptive parent is always the householder. This table does not include children under 18 who are either ever- married, or are reported as someone other than the child of the householder, such as a grandchild, or other non-relative. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/exp_acs2008_1yr.html.
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.