Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA

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)	609,844	96.89%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	19,557	3.11%	100.00%
Mexican	2,630	0.42%	13.45%
Puerto Rican	12,199	1.94%	62.38%
Cuban	629	0.10%	3.22%
Dominican	415	0.07%	2.12%
Central American	363	0.06%	1.86%
Costa Rican	24	0.00%	0.12%
Guatemalan	65	0.01%	0.33%
Honduran	78	0.01%	0.40%
Nicaraguan	24	0.00%	0.12%
Panamanian	107	0.02%	0.55%
Salvadorian	48	0.01%	0.25%
Other Central American	17	0.00%	0.09%
South American	688	0.11%	3.52%
Argentinian	52	0.01%	0.27%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.03%
Chilean	40	0.01%	0.20%
Columbian	175	0.03%	0.89%
Ecuadorian	190	0.03%	0.97%
Paraguayan	13	0.00%	0.07%
Peruvian	116	0.02%	0.59%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	46	0.01%	0.24%
Other South American	45	0.01%	0.23%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,633	0.42%	13.46%
Spaniard	46	0.01%	0.24%
Spanish	449	0.07%	2.30%
Spanish American	49	0.01%	0.25%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,089	0.33%	10.68%

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

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