Greene 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)	235,957	98.16%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	4,434	1.84%	100.00%
Mexican	2,594	1.08%	58.50%
Puerto Rican	381	0.16%	8.59%
Cuban	110	0.05%	2.48%
Dominican	23	0.01%	0.52%
Central American	181	0.08%	4.08%
Costa Rican	15	0.01%	0.34%
Guatemalan	21	0.01%	0.47%
Honduran	25	0.01%	0.56%
Nicaraguan	21	0.01%	0.47%
Panamanian	34	0.01%	0.77%
Salvadorian	51	0.02%	1.15%
Other Central American	14	0.01%	0.32%
South American	165	0.07%	3.72%
Argentinian	14	0.01%	0.32%
Bolivian	13	0.01%	0.29%
Chilean	13	0.01%	0.29%
Columbian	64	0.03%	1.44%
Ecuadorian	23	0.01%	0.52%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	14	0.01%	0.32%
Uruguayan	4	0.00%	0.09%
Venezuelan	12	0.00%	0.27%
Other South American	7	0.00%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	980	0.41%	22.10%
Spaniard	36	0.01%	0.81%
Spanish	189	0.08%	4.26%
Spanish American	15	0.01%	0.34%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	740	0.31%	16.69%

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

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