Hinds 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)	248,822	99.21%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	1,978	0.79%	100.00%
Mexican	947	0.38%	47.88%
Puerto Rican	170	0.07%	8.59%
Cuban	87	0.03%	4.40%
Dominican	1	0.00%	0.05%
Central American	80	0.03%	4.04%
Costa Rican	7	0.00%	0.35%
Guatemalan	17	0.01%	0.86%
Honduran	12	0.00%	0.61%
Nicaraguan	13	0.01%	0.66%
Panamanian	23	0.01%	1.16%
Salvadorian	5	0.00%	0.25%
Other Central American	3	0.00%	0.15%
South American	74	0.03%	3.74%
Argentinian	20	0.01%	1.01%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.10%
Chilean	9	0.00%	0.46%
Columbian	18	0.01%	0.91%
Ecuadorian	1	0.00%	0.05%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	7	0.00%	0.35%
Uruguayan	3	0.00%	0.15%
Venezuelan	12	0.00%	0.61%
Other South American	2	0.00%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	619	0.25%	31.29%
Spaniard	4	0.00%	0.20%
Spanish	39	0.02%	1.97%
Spanish American	3	0.00%	0.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	573	0.23%	28.97%

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

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