Lyon 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)	29,925	83.28%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	6,010	16.72%	100.00%
Mexican	4,532	12.61%	75.41%
Puerto Rican	39	0.11%	0.65%
Cuban	30	0.08%	0.50%
Dominican	2	0.01%	0.03%
Central American	415	1.15%	6.91%
Costa Rican	1	0.00%	0.02%
Guatemalan	20	0.06%	0.33%
Honduran	13	0.04%	0.22%
Nicaraguan	1	0.00%	0.02%
Panamanian	1	0.00%	0.02%
Salvadorian	350	0.97%	5.82%
Other Central American	29	0.08%	0.48%
South American	89	0.25%	1.48%
Argentinian	6	0.02%	0.10%
Bolivian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	0	0.00%	0.00%
Columbian	11	0.03%	0.18%
Ecuadorian	48	0.13%	0.80%
Paraguayan	14	0.04%	0.23%
Peruvian	7	0.02%	0.12%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	3	0.01%	0.05%
Other South American	0	0.00%	0.00%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	903	2.51%	15.02%
Spaniard	3	0.01%	0.05%
Spanish	70	0.19%	1.16%
Spanish American	4	0.01%	0.07%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	826	2.30%	13.74%

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

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