Paulding 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)	80,280	98.29%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	1,398	1.71%	100.00%
Mexican	558	0.68%	39.91%
Puerto Rican	278	0.34%	19.89%
Cuban	121	0.15%	8.66%
Dominican	19	0.02%	1.36%
Central American	42	0.05%	3.00%
Costa Rican	2	0.00%	0.14%
Guatemalan	5	0.01%	0.36%
Honduran	1	0.00%	0.07%
Nicaraguan	6	0.01%	0.43%
Panamanian	13	0.02%	0.93%
Salvadorian	14	0.02%	1.00%
Other Central American	1	0.00%	0.07%
South American	105	0.13%	7.51%
Argentinian	1	0.00%	0.07%
Bolivian	5	0.01%	0.36%
Chilean	6	0.01%	0.43%
Columbian	48	0.06%	3.43%
Ecuadorian	12	0.01%	0.86%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	7	0.01%	0.50%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.14%
Venezuelan	20	0.02%	1.43%
Other South American	4	0.00%	0.29%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	275	0.34%	19.67%
Spaniard	8	0.01%	0.57%
Spanish	38	0.05%	2.72%
Spanish American	7	0.01%	0.50%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	222	0.27%	15.88%

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

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