Gwinnett 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)	524,311	89.10%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	64,137	10.90%	100.00%
Mexican	36,016	6.12%	56.15%
Puerto Rican	4,173	0.71%	6.51%
Cuban	2,098	0.36%	3.27%
Dominican	727	0.12%	1.13%
Central American	6,098	1.04%	9.51%
Costa Rican	284	0.05%	0.44%
Guatemalan	1,490	0.25%	2.32%
Honduran	924	0.16%	1.44%
Nicaraguan	281	0.05%	0.44%
Panamanian	254	0.04%	0.40%
Salvadorian	2,554	0.43%	3.98%
Other Central American	311	0.05%	0.48%
South American	5,709	0.97%	8.90%
Argentinian	170	0.03%	0.27%
Bolivian	58	0.01%	0.09%
Chilean	175	0.03%	0.27%
Columbian	3,269	0.56%	5.10%
Ecuadorian	321	0.05%	0.50%
Paraguayan	43	0.01%	0.07%
Peruvian	833	0.14%	1.30%
Uruguayan	170	0.03%	0.27%
Venezuelan	528	0.09%	0.82%
Other South American	142	0.02%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	9,316	1.58%	14.53%
Spaniard	159	0.03%	0.25%
Spanish	1,017	0.17%	1.59%
Spanish American	99	0.02%	0.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	8,041	1.37%	12.54%

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

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