Orleans Parish

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)	469,848	96.94%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	14,826	3.06%	100.00%
Mexican	2,578	0.53%	17.39%
Puerto Rican	1,031	0.21%	6.95%
Cuban	1,615	0.33%	10.89%
Dominican	118	0.02%	0.80%
Central American	3,485	0.72%	23.51%
Costa Rican	112	0.02%	0.76%
Guatemalan	358	0.07%	2.41%
Honduran	1,958	0.40%	13.21%
Nicaraguan	488	0.10%	3.29%
Panamanian	146	0.03%	0.98%
Salvadorian	210	0.04%	1.42%
Other Central American	213	0.04%	1.44%
South American	798	0.16%	5.38%
Argentinian	86	0.02%	0.58%
Bolivian	22	0.00%	0.15%
Chilean	59	0.01%	0.40%
Columbian	286	0.06%	1.93%
Ecuadorian	125	0.03%	0.84%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	85	0.02%	0.57%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	83	0.02%	0.56%
Other South American	47	0.01%	0.32%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,201	1.07%	35.08%
Spaniard	127	0.03%	0.86%
Spanish	853	0.18%	5.75%
Spanish American	66	0.01%	0.45%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,155	0.86%	28.03%

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

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