Lexington 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)	211,868	98.08%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	4,146	1.92%	100.00%
Mexican	2,252	1.04%	54.32%
Puerto Rican	655	0.30%	15.80%
Cuban	219	0.10%	5.28%
Dominican	21	0.01%	0.51%
Central American	171	0.08%	4.12%
Costa Rican	3	0.00%	0.07%
Guatemalan	69	0.03%	1.66%
Honduran	25	0.01%	0.60%
Nicaraguan	11	0.01%	0.27%
Panamanian	43	0.02%	1.04%
Salvadorian	14	0.01%	0.34%
Other Central American	6	0.00%	0.14%
South American	205	0.09%	4.94%
Argentinian	24	0.01%	0.58%
Bolivian	7	0.00%	0.17%
Chilean	12	0.01%	0.29%
Columbian	47	0.02%	1.13%
Ecuadorian	21	0.01%	0.51%
Paraguayan	4	0.00%	0.10%
Peruvian	39	0.02%	0.94%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	33	0.02%	0.80%
Other South American	17	0.01%	0.41%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	623	0.29%	15.03%
Spaniard	15	0.01%	0.36%
Spanish	114	0.05%	2.75%
Spanish American	12	0.01%	0.29%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	482	0.22%	11.63%

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

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