Tulsa 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)	529,683	94.03%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	33,616	5.97%	100.00%
Mexican	24,586	4.36%	73.14%
Puerto Rican	1,548	0.27%	4.60%
Cuban	444	0.08%	1.32%
Dominican	74	0.01%	0.22%
Central American	882	0.16%	2.62%
Costa Rican	96	0.02%	0.29%
Guatemalan	279	0.05%	0.83%
Honduran	169	0.03%	0.50%
Nicaraguan	37	0.01%	0.11%
Panamanian	91	0.02%	0.27%
Salvadorian	179	0.03%	0.53%
Other Central American	31	0.01%	0.09%
South American	1,079	0.19%	3.21%
Argentinian	79	0.01%	0.24%
Bolivian	48	0.01%	0.14%
Chilean	39	0.01%	0.12%
Columbian	246	0.04%	0.73%
Ecuadorian	63	0.01%	0.19%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	248	0.04%	0.74%
Uruguayan	12	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	301	0.05%	0.90%
Other South American	42	0.01%	0.12%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,003	0.89%	14.88%
Spaniard	84	0.01%	0.25%
Spanish	860	0.15%	2.56%
Spanish American	73	0.01%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,986	0.71%	11.86%

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

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