Fulton 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)	767,950	94.11%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	48,056	5.89%	100.00%
Mexican	32,476	3.98%	67.58%
Puerto Rican	2,925	0.36%	6.09%
Cuban	1,889	0.23%	3.93%
Dominican	328	0.04%	0.68%
Central American	1,935	0.24%	4.03%
Costa Rican	129	0.02%	0.27%
Guatemalan	288	0.04%	0.60%
Honduran	492	0.06%	1.02%
Nicaraguan	90	0.01%	0.19%
Panamanian	279	0.03%	0.58%
Salvadorian	588	0.07%	1.22%
Other Central American	69	0.01%	0.14%
South American	2,871	0.35%	5.97%
Argentinian	232	0.03%	0.48%
Bolivian	57	0.01%	0.12%
Chilean	125	0.02%	0.26%
Columbian	1,266	0.16%	2.63%
Ecuadorian	134	0.02%	0.28%
Paraguayan	27	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	418	0.05%	0.87%
Uruguayan	58	0.01%	0.12%
Venezuelan	437	0.05%	0.91%
Other South American	117	0.01%	0.24%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,632	0.69%	11.72%
Spaniard	165	0.02%	0.34%
Spanish	661	0.08%	1.38%
Spanish American	34	0.00%	0.07%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,772	0.58%	9.93%

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

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