Platte County

MULTIRACIAL PROFILE

The 2000 Census questionnaire was the first to allow respondents to select more than one race . Nationwide, approximately 2.4 percent of the population, over 6.8 million Americans, marked an identification with two or more races.

As is the case with many racial and ethnic groups, the multiracial population is not evenly distributed across the country. Hawaii has the largest multiracial population with 24.1 percent of its population identifying with two or more races. Alaska follows a distant second with 5.4 percent identifying as multiracial. The five least multiracial states (Mississippi, West Virginia, Maine, Alabama and South Carolina) all have multiracial populations of less than 1 percent.

For more on the geography of the U.S. multiracial population, see our multiracial map .

Number of Races Selected
Number Percent of Total Percent of Multiracial
Two Races 1,298 1.76% 94.06%
Three Races 80 0.11% 5.80%
Four Races 2 0.00% 0.14%
Five Races 0 0.00% 0.00%
Six Races 0 0.00% 0.00%

Multiple Race Combinations by Frequency
Rank Multiple Race Selection Number Percent of Total Population Percent of Multiple Race Population
1. White and American Indian 390 0.53% 28.26%
2. White and Some Other Race 326 0.44% 23.62%
3. White and Black 237 0.32% 17.17%
4. White and Asian 187 0.25% 13.55%
5. Black and Some Other Race 44 0.06% 3.19%
6. Asian and Some Other Race 33 0.04% 2.39%
7. Black and American Indian 25 0.03% 1.81%
8. White and American Indian and Some Other Race 24 0.03% 1.74%
9. White and Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 20 0.03% 1.45%
10. White and Black and American Indian 17 0.02% 1.23%
11. Asian and Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 15 0.02% 1.09%
12. White and Asian and Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 12 0.02% 0.87%
13. White and Black and Some Other Race 10 0.01% 0.72%
14. American Indian and Some Other Race 9 0.01% 0.65%
15. Black and Asian 8 0.01% 0.58%
16. White and American Indian and Asian 6 0.01% 0.43%
17. Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander and Some Other Race 4 0.01% 0.29%
18. White and Asian and Some Other Race 4 0.01% 0.29%
19. White and Black and Asian 3 0.00% 0.22%
20. Black and American Indian and Some Other Race 2 0.00% 0.14%
21. Black and Asian and Some Other Race 2 0.00% 0.14%
22. White and Black and American Indian and Asian 2 0.00% 0.14%

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

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