Catawba 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)	133,799	94.43%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	7,886	5.57%	100.00%
Mexican	5,687	4.01%	72.12%
Puerto Rican	290	0.20%	3.68%
Cuban	77	0.05%	0.98%
Dominican	39	0.03%	0.49%
Central American	565	0.40%	7.16%
Costa Rican	216	0.15%	2.74%
Guatemalan	63	0.04%	0.80%
Honduran	92	0.06%	1.17%
Nicaraguan	58	0.04%	0.74%
Panamanian	23	0.02%	0.29%
Salvadorian	104	0.07%	1.32%
Other Central American	9	0.01%	0.11%
South American	292	0.21%	3.70%
Argentinian	6	0.00%	0.08%
Bolivian	1	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	12	0.01%	0.15%
Columbian	231	0.16%	2.93%
Ecuadorian	13	0.01%	0.16%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	14	0.01%	0.18%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	7	0.00%	0.09%
Other South American	8	0.01%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	936	0.66%	11.87%
Spaniard	12	0.01%	0.15%
Spanish	94	0.07%	1.19%
Spanish American	17	0.01%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	813	0.57%	10.31%

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

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