Buncombe 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)	200,600	97.22%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	5,730	2.78%	100.00%
Mexican	3,541	1.72%	61.80%
Puerto Rican	457	0.22%	7.98%
Cuban	167	0.08%	2.91%
Dominican	15	0.01%	0.26%
Central American	497	0.24%	8.67%
Costa Rican	14	0.01%	0.24%
Guatemalan	91	0.04%	1.59%
Honduran	64	0.03%	1.12%
Nicaraguan	27	0.01%	0.47%
Panamanian	19	0.01%	0.33%
Salvadorian	267	0.13%	4.66%
Other Central American	15	0.01%	0.26%
South American	279	0.14%	4.87%
Argentinian	20	0.01%	0.35%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.10%
Chilean	45	0.02%	0.79%
Columbian	77	0.04%	1.34%
Ecuadorian	41	0.02%	0.72%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	22	0.01%	0.38%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.09%
Venezuelan	38	0.02%	0.66%
Other South American	25	0.01%	0.44%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	774	0.38%	13.51%
Spaniard	19	0.01%	0.33%
Spanish	149	0.07%	2.60%
Spanish American	20	0.01%	0.35%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	586	0.28%	10.23%

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

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