Sedgwick 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)	416,472	91.96%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	36,397	8.04%	100.00%
Mexican	29,327	6.48%	80.58%
Puerto Rican	960	0.21%	2.64%
Cuban	310	0.07%	0.85%
Dominican	23	0.01%	0.06%
Central American	653	0.14%	1.79%
Costa Rican	18	0.00%	0.05%
Guatemalan	90	0.02%	0.25%
Honduran	138	0.03%	0.38%
Nicaraguan	48	0.01%	0.13%
Panamanian	76	0.02%	0.21%
Salvadorian	248	0.05%	0.68%
Other Central American	35	0.01%	0.10%
South American	520	0.11%	1.43%
Argentinian	25	0.01%	0.07%
Bolivian	24	0.01%	0.07%
Chilean	39	0.01%	0.11%
Columbian	153	0.03%	0.42%
Ecuadorian	40	0.01%	0.11%
Paraguayan	12	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	87	0.02%	0.24%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	103	0.02%	0.28%
Other South American	35	0.01%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,604	1.02%	12.65%
Spaniard	46	0.01%	0.13%
Spanish	566	0.12%	1.56%
Spanish American	34	0.01%	0.09%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,958	0.87%	10.87%

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

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