Broome 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)	196,550	98.01%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,986	1.99%	100.00%
Mexican	445	0.22%	11.16%
Puerto Rican	1,939	0.97%	48.65%
Cuban	211	0.11%	5.29%
Dominican	203	0.10%	5.09%
Central American	138	0.07%	3.46%
Costa Rican	18	0.01%	0.45%
Guatemalan	37	0.02%	0.93%
Honduran	23	0.01%	0.58%
Nicaraguan	14	0.01%	0.35%
Panamanian	30	0.01%	0.75%
Salvadorian	12	0.01%	0.30%
Other Central American	4	0.00%	0.10%
South American	298	0.15%	7.48%
Argentinian	48	0.02%	1.20%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.15%
Chilean	20	0.01%	0.50%
Columbian	82	0.04%	2.06%
Ecuadorian	53	0.03%	1.33%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	56	0.03%	1.40%
Uruguayan	7	0.00%	0.18%
Venezuelan	17	0.01%	0.43%
Other South American	9	0.00%	0.23%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	752	0.37%	18.87%
Spaniard	34	0.02%	0.85%
Spanish	142	0.07%	3.56%
Spanish American	4	0.00%	0.10%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	572	0.29%	14.35%

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

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