Rockingham 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)	274,045	98.81%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,314	1.19%	100.00%
Mexican	585	0.21%	17.65%
Puerto Rican	1,003	0.36%	30.27%
Cuban	201	0.07%	6.07%
Dominican	261	0.09%	7.88%
Central American	209	0.08%	6.31%
Costa Rican	23	0.01%	0.69%
Guatemalan	72	0.03%	2.17%
Honduran	29	0.01%	0.88%
Nicaraguan	25	0.01%	0.75%
Panamanian	24	0.01%	0.72%
Salvadorian	20	0.01%	0.60%
Other Central American	16	0.01%	0.48%
South American	331	0.12%	9.99%
Argentinian	18	0.01%	0.54%
Bolivian	3	0.00%	0.09%
Chilean	21	0.01%	0.63%
Columbian	142	0.05%	4.28%
Ecuadorian	43	0.02%	1.30%
Paraguayan	2	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	36	0.01%	1.09%
Uruguayan	13	0.00%	0.39%
Venezuelan	29	0.01%	0.88%
Other South American	24	0.01%	0.72%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	724	0.26%	21.85%
Spaniard	44	0.02%	1.33%
Spanish	129	0.05%	3.89%
Spanish American	9	0.00%	0.27%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	542	0.20%	16.35%

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

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