Hampden 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)	387,031	84.83%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	69,197	15.17%	100.00%
Mexican	1,120	0.25%	1.62%
Puerto Rican	58,528	12.83%	84.58%
Cuban	438	0.10%	0.63%
Dominican	962	0.21%	1.39%
Central American	593	0.13%	0.86%
Costa Rican	111	0.02%	0.16%
Guatemalan	115	0.03%	0.17%
Honduran	68	0.01%	0.10%
Nicaraguan	24	0.01%	0.03%
Panamanian	147	0.03%	0.21%
Salvadorian	109	0.02%	0.16%
Other Central American	19	0.00%	0.03%
South American	1,032	0.23%	1.49%
Argentinian	30	0.01%	0.04%
Bolivian	5	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	31	0.01%	0.04%
Columbian	529	0.12%	0.76%
Ecuadorian	153	0.03%	0.22%
Paraguayan	10	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	156	0.03%	0.23%
Uruguayan	9	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	55	0.01%	0.08%
Other South American	54	0.01%	0.08%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,524	1.43%	9.43%
Spaniard	98	0.02%	0.14%
Spanish	653	0.14%	0.94%
Spanish American	86	0.02%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,687	1.25%	8.22%

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

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