Niagara 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)	216,933	98.67%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,913	1.33%	100.00%
Mexican	546	0.25%	18.74%
Puerto Rican	1,381	0.63%	47.41%
Cuban	111	0.05%	3.81%
Dominican	36	0.02%	1.24%
Central American	77	0.04%	2.64%
Costa Rican	4	0.00%	0.14%
Guatemalan	11	0.01%	0.38%
Honduran	11	0.01%	0.38%
Nicaraguan	5	0.00%	0.17%
Panamanian	33	0.02%	1.13%
Salvadorian	13	0.01%	0.45%
Other Central American	0	0.00%	0.00%
South American	82	0.04%	2.81%
Argentinian	8	0.00%	0.27%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	2	0.00%	0.07%
Columbian	34	0.02%	1.17%
Ecuadorian	9	0.00%	0.31%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	15	0.01%	0.51%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	8	0.00%	0.27%
Other South American	4	0.00%	0.14%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	680	0.31%	23.34%
Spaniard	23	0.01%	0.79%
Spanish	216	0.10%	7.42%
Spanish American	16	0.01%	0.55%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	425	0.19%	14.59%

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

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