Charles 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)	117,824	97.74%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,722	2.26%	100.00%
Mexican	757	0.63%	27.81%
Puerto Rican	800	0.66%	29.39%
Cuban	137	0.11%	5.03%
Dominican	41	0.03%	1.51%
Central American	229	0.19%	8.41%
Costa Rican	9	0.01%	0.33%
Guatemalan	36	0.03%	1.32%
Honduran	26	0.02%	0.96%
Nicaraguan	10	0.01%	0.37%
Panamanian	63	0.05%	2.31%
Salvadorian	81	0.07%	2.98%
Other Central American	4	0.00%	0.15%
South American	147	0.12%	5.40%
Argentinian	11	0.01%	0.40%
Bolivian	25	0.02%	0.92%
Chilean	20	0.02%	0.73%
Columbian	30	0.02%	1.10%
Ecuadorian	10	0.01%	0.37%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	27	0.02%	0.99%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	12	0.01%	0.44%
Other South American	11	0.01%	0.40%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	611	0.51%	22.45%
Spaniard	27	0.02%	0.99%
Spanish	188	0.16%	6.91%
Spanish American	17	0.01%	0.62%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	379	0.31%	13.92%

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

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