Philadelphia 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)	1,388,622	91.50%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	128,928	8.50%	100.00%
Mexican	6,220	0.41%	4.82%
Puerto Rican	91,527	6.03%	70.99%
Cuban	2,730	0.18%	2.12%
Dominican	4,337	0.29%	3.36%
Central American	2,846	0.19%	2.21%
Costa Rican	501	0.03%	0.39%
Guatemalan	518	0.03%	0.40%
Honduran	466	0.03%	0.36%
Nicaraguan	544	0.04%	0.42%
Panamanian	378	0.02%	0.29%
Salvadorian	337	0.02%	0.26%
Other Central American	102	0.01%	0.08%
South American	4,761	0.31%	3.69%
Argentinian	531	0.03%	0.41%
Bolivian	55	0.00%	0.04%
Chilean	182	0.01%	0.14%
Columbian	2,414	0.16%	1.87%
Ecuadorian	420	0.03%	0.33%
Paraguayan	38	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	471	0.03%	0.37%
Uruguayan	86	0.01%	0.07%
Venezuelan	409	0.03%	0.32%
Other South American	155	0.01%	0.12%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	16,507	1.09%	12.80%
Spaniard	259	0.02%	0.20%
Spanish	1,860	0.12%	1.44%
Spanish American	182	0.01%	0.14%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	14,206	0.94%	11.02%

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

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