Anne Arundel 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)	476,754	97.37%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	12,902	2.63%	100.00%
Mexican	3,514	0.72%	27.24%
Puerto Rican	2,986	0.61%	23.14%
Cuban	433	0.09%	3.36%
Dominican	151	0.03%	1.17%
Central American	1,989	0.41%	15.42%
Costa Rican	52	0.01%	0.40%
Guatemalan	235	0.05%	1.82%
Honduran	133	0.03%	1.03%
Nicaraguan	77	0.02%	0.60%
Panamanian	234	0.05%	1.81%
Salvadorian	1,203	0.25%	9.32%
Other Central American	55	0.01%	0.43%
South American	924	0.19%	7.16%
Argentinian	68	0.01%	0.53%
Bolivian	58	0.01%	0.45%
Chilean	118	0.02%	0.91%
Columbian	228	0.05%	1.77%
Ecuadorian	100	0.02%	0.78%
Paraguayan	10	0.00%	0.08%
Peruvian	181	0.04%	1.40%
Uruguayan	26	0.01%	0.20%
Venezuelan	71	0.01%	0.55%
Other South American	64	0.01%	0.50%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,905	0.59%	22.52%
Spaniard	122	0.02%	0.95%
Spanish	600	0.12%	4.65%
Spanish American	56	0.01%	0.43%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,127	0.43%	16.49%

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

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