Lebanon 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)	114,358	95.04%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	5,969	4.96%	100.00%
Mexican	448	0.37%	7.51%
Puerto Rican	4,302	3.58%	72.07%
Cuban	103	0.09%	1.73%
Dominican	144	0.12%	2.41%
Central American	71	0.06%	1.19%
Costa Rican	8	0.01%	0.13%
Guatemalan	4	0.00%	0.07%
Honduran	14	0.01%	0.23%
Nicaraguan	7	0.01%	0.12%
Panamanian	23	0.02%	0.39%
Salvadorian	15	0.01%	0.25%
Other Central American	0	0.00%	0.00%
South American	123	0.10%	2.06%
Argentinian	9	0.01%	0.15%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.03%
Chilean	10	0.01%	0.17%
Columbian	51	0.04%	0.85%
Ecuadorian	20	0.02%	0.34%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	7	0.01%	0.12%
Uruguayan	4	0.00%	0.07%
Venezuelan	9	0.01%	0.15%
Other South American	10	0.01%	0.17%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	778	0.65%	13.03%
Spaniard	14	0.01%	0.23%
Spanish	112	0.09%	1.88%
Spanish American	9	0.01%	0.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	643	0.53%	10.77%

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

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