Indian River 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)	105,566	93.47%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	7,381	6.53%	100.00%
Mexican	4,713	4.17%	63.85%
Puerto Rican	724	0.64%	9.81%
Cuban	386	0.34%	5.23%
Dominican	30	0.03%	0.41%
Central American	220	0.19%	2.98%
Costa Rican	22	0.02%	0.30%
Guatemalan	26	0.02%	0.35%
Honduran	72	0.06%	0.98%
Nicaraguan	15	0.01%	0.20%
Panamanian	22	0.02%	0.30%
Salvadorian	53	0.05%	0.72%
Other Central American	10	0.01%	0.14%
South American	460	0.41%	6.23%
Argentinian	25	0.02%	0.34%
Bolivian	5	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	24	0.02%	0.33%
Columbian	251	0.22%	3.40%
Ecuadorian	38	0.03%	0.51%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	60	0.05%	0.81%
Uruguayan	3	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	33	0.03%	0.45%
Other South American	20	0.02%	0.27%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	848	0.75%	11.49%
Spaniard	13	0.01%	0.18%
Spanish	135	0.12%	1.83%
Spanish American	15	0.01%	0.20%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	685	0.61%	9.28%

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

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