Johnston 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)	112,525	92.26%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	9,440	7.74%	100.00%
Mexican	7,399	6.07%	78.38%
Puerto Rican	296	0.24%	3.14%
Cuban	117	0.10%	1.24%
Dominican	62	0.05%	0.66%
Central American	664	0.54%	7.03%
Costa Rican	13	0.01%	0.14%
Guatemalan	71	0.06%	0.75%
Honduran	431	0.35%	4.57%
Nicaraguan	23	0.02%	0.24%
Panamanian	35	0.03%	0.37%
Salvadorian	74	0.06%	0.78%
Other Central American	17	0.01%	0.18%
South American	123	0.10%	1.30%
Argentinian	13	0.01%	0.14%
Bolivian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	9	0.01%	0.10%
Columbian	33	0.03%	0.35%
Ecuadorian	11	0.01%	0.12%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	26	0.02%	0.28%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	26	0.02%	0.28%
Other South American	4	0.00%	0.04%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	779	0.64%	8.25%
Spaniard	4	0.00%	0.04%
Spanish	82	0.07%	0.87%
Spanish American	9	0.01%	0.10%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	684	0.56%	7.25%

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

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