Question about Demographics for a city on Wikipedia [View all]

[Beringia]

I was looking up the demographics for different cities in my area. The last census was 2010 and that is what is cited on the Wiki pages. I came across this puzzle on many of the pages I visited, where they gave a breakdown of the different races and the percent for that neighborhood, and the numbers didn't add up to 100%.

Here is an example, Berwyn, Illinois.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn,_Illinois#Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 56,657 people and 18,910 households in the city. The racial makeup of the city was:

60.48% White
6.40% African American
0.59% Native American
2.52% Asian
0.03% Pacific Islander
26.61% some other race
3.37% from two or more races.

Hispanics and Latinos of any race made up 59.44% of the population.

So I couldn't understand, how can you 60.48% White and 59.44% Hispanics. I asked on the talk section of the Wiki page, located top right, about the numbers not making sense, and I saw something where the reply was (no difference). I don't know how the message got there or who put it there.


So I went to find some demographic data that made sense to me and found one from Illinois.

https://www.cmap.illinois.gov/documents/10180/102881/Berwyn.pdf

I added it to the Wiki page and I wonder if it will get deleted in the future. Here is the data I found and added.

As per the Community Data Snapshot Berwyn 2013-2017, Municipality, June 2019 release Berwyn had the following demographics:

Hispanic or Latino: 35,928, 63.7%
White non-Hispanic: 14,793, 26.2%
Black non-Hispanic: 3,235, 5.7%
Asian non-Hispanic: 1,823, 3.2%
All other categories: 588, 1.0%

So was wondering if anyone could make sense of the first data given, where there are 60.48% White and 59.44% Hispanics.

Also they gave a breakdown of the different European ethnicities but they didn't give a breakdown of the different Hispanic ethnicities.

The top five non-Hispanic ancestries reported in Berwyn as of the 2009-2011 American Community Survey were Italian (8.0%), German (7.8%), Irish (7.3%), and Polish (7.1%).