Worcester 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)	700,099	93.23%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	50,864	6.77%	100.00%
Mexican	2,385	0.32%	4.69%
Puerto Rican	32,432	4.32%	63.76%
Cuban	860	0.11%	1.69%
Dominican	2,691	0.36%	5.29%
Central American	2,165	0.29%	4.26%
Costa Rican	132	0.02%	0.26%
Guatemalan	395	0.05%	0.78%
Honduran	175	0.02%	0.34%
Nicaraguan	51	0.01%	0.10%
Panamanian	147	0.02%	0.29%
Salvadorian	1,158	0.15%	2.28%
Other Central American	107	0.01%	0.21%
South American	2,773	0.37%	5.45%
Argentinian	129	0.02%	0.25%
Bolivian	42	0.01%	0.08%
Chilean	122	0.02%	0.24%
Columbian	759	0.10%	1.49%
Ecuadorian	672	0.09%	1.32%
Paraguayan	11	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	226	0.03%	0.44%
Uruguayan	459	0.06%	0.90%
Venezuelan	176	0.02%	0.35%
Other South American	177	0.02%	0.35%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	7,558	1.01%	14.86%
Spaniard	120	0.02%	0.24%
Spanish	944	0.13%	1.86%
Spanish American	140	0.02%	0.28%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,354	0.85%	12.49%

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

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