Sarasota County

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)	311,815	95.66%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	14,142	4.34%	100.00%
Mexican	5,859	1.80%	41.43%
Puerto Rican	2,146	0.66%	15.17%
Cuban	1,759	0.54%	12.44%
Dominican	183	0.06%	1.29%
Central American	577	0.18%	4.08%
Costa Rican	48	0.01%	0.34%
Guatemalan	84	0.03%	0.59%
Honduran	146	0.04%	1.03%
Nicaraguan	110	0.03%	0.78%
Panamanian	87	0.03%	0.62%
Salvadorian	81	0.02%	0.57%
Other Central American	21	0.01%	0.15%
South American	1,388	0.43%	9.81%
Argentinian	172	0.05%	1.22%
Bolivian	16	0.00%	0.11%
Chilean	77	0.02%	0.54%
Columbian	586	0.18%	4.14%
Ecuadorian	69	0.02%	0.49%
Paraguayan	9	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	264	0.08%	1.87%
Uruguayan	7	0.00%	0.05%
Venezuelan	140	0.04%	0.99%
Other South American	48	0.01%	0.34%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,230	0.68%	15.77%
Spaniard	90	0.03%	0.64%
Spanish	407	0.12%	2.88%
Spanish American	40	0.01%	0.28%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,693	0.52%	11.97%

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

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