Fort Walton Beach, FL

ETHNIC AND RACIAL HERITAGE

The Census provides two different ways for respondents to indicate their heritage. The method shown here pertains to Asians, American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, and persons of Hispanic ethnicity. As a part of the race and ethnicity questions on the short form of the 2000 Census, members of these groups were asked to indicate one or more categories of racial or ethnic origin. In the case of Americans Indians and Alaskan Natives, respondents were given the opportunity to identify their affiliation with one or more tribes.

* Southern Asian includes Asian Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan.

** Southeastern Asian includes Cambodian, Filipino, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai and Vietnamese.

*** Eastern Asian includes Chinese, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese.

Hispanic Ancestries, 2000
		Percent of	Percent of
	Number	Total Population	Hispanic Population
Total Non-Hispanic (All Races)	163,196	95.72%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	7,302	4.28%	100.00%
Mexican	2,448	1.44%	33.53%
Puerto Rican	1,895	1.11%	25.95%
Cuban	445	0.26%	6.09%
Dominican	90	0.05%	1.23%
Central American	549	0.32%	7.52%
Costa Rican	26	0.02%	0.36%
Guatemalan	45	0.03%	0.62%
Honduran	98	0.06%	1.34%
Nicaraguan	43	0.03%	0.59%
Panamanian	278	0.16%	3.81%
Salvadorian	35	0.02%	0.48%
Other Central American	24	0.01%	0.33%
South American	256	0.15%	3.51%
Argentinian	9	0.01%	0.12%
Bolivian	12	0.01%	0.16%
Chilean	16	0.01%	0.22%
Columbian	103	0.06%	1.41%
Ecuadorian	13	0.01%	0.18%
Paraguayan	5	0.00%	0.07%
Peruvian	57	0.03%	0.78%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	18	0.01%	0.25%
Other South American	22	0.01%	0.30%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,619	0.95%	22.17%
Spaniard	110	0.06%	1.51%
Spanish	366	0.21%	5.01%
Spanish American	41	0.02%	0.56%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,102	0.65%	15.09%

Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).

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