Franklin 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)	1,044,699	97.73%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	24,279	2.27%	100.00%
Mexican	12,005	1.12%	49.45%
Puerto Rican	3,624	0.34%	14.93%
Cuban	888	0.08%	3.66%
Dominican	436	0.04%	1.80%
Central American	1,329	0.12%	5.47%
Costa Rican	95	0.01%	0.39%
Guatemalan	166	0.02%	0.68%
Honduran	166	0.02%	0.68%
Nicaraguan	99	0.01%	0.41%
Panamanian	205	0.02%	0.84%
Salvadorian	536	0.05%	2.21%
Other Central American	62	0.01%	0.26%
South American	1,463	0.14%	6.03%
Argentinian	128	0.01%	0.53%
Bolivian	64	0.01%	0.26%
Chilean	96	0.01%	0.40%
Columbian	424	0.04%	1.75%
Ecuadorian	162	0.02%	0.67%
Paraguayan	10	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	262	0.02%	1.08%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	247	0.02%	1.02%
Other South American	65	0.01%	0.27%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,534	0.42%	18.67%
Spaniard	128	0.01%	0.53%
Spanish	736	0.07%	3.03%
Spanish American	62	0.01%	0.26%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,608	0.34%	14.86%

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

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