Seminole 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)	324,465	88.85%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	40,731	11.15%	100.00%
Mexican	3,871	1.06%	9.50%
Puerto Rican	19,609	5.37%	48.14%
Cuban	3,610	0.99%	8.86%
Dominican	1,223	0.33%	3.00%
Central American	1,595	0.44%	3.92%
Costa Rican	233	0.06%	0.57%
Guatemalan	165	0.05%	0.41%
Honduran	212	0.06%	0.52%
Nicaraguan	220	0.06%	0.54%
Panamanian	402	0.11%	0.99%
Salvadorian	265	0.07%	0.65%
Other Central American	98	0.03%	0.24%
South American	4,690	1.28%	11.51%
Argentinian	370	0.10%	0.91%
Bolivian	83	0.02%	0.20%
Chilean	114	0.03%	0.28%
Columbian	2,182	0.60%	5.36%
Ecuadorian	484	0.13%	1.19%
Paraguayan	8	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	648	0.18%	1.59%
Uruguayan	41	0.01%	0.10%
Venezuelan	587	0.16%	1.44%
Other South American	173	0.05%	0.42%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,133	1.68%	15.06%
Spaniard	218	0.06%	0.54%
Spanish	759	0.21%	1.86%
Spanish American	104	0.03%	0.26%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,052	1.38%	12.40%

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

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