Ellis 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)	90,852	81.58%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	20,508	18.42%	100.00%
Mexican	16,667	14.97%	81.27%
Puerto Rican	116	0.10%	0.57%
Cuban	47	0.04%	0.23%
Dominican	1	0.00%	0.00%
Central American	138	0.12%	0.67%
Costa Rican	4	0.00%	0.02%
Guatemalan	25	0.02%	0.12%
Honduran	34	0.03%	0.17%
Nicaraguan	17	0.02%	0.08%
Panamanian	16	0.01%	0.08%
Salvadorian	34	0.03%	0.17%
Other Central American	8	0.01%	0.04%
South American	72	0.06%	0.35%
Argentinian	5	0.00%	0.02%
Bolivian	3	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	4	0.00%	0.02%
Columbian	25	0.02%	0.12%
Ecuadorian	3	0.00%	0.01%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	20	0.02%	0.10%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	10	0.01%	0.05%
Other South American	1	0.00%	0.00%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,467	3.11%	16.91%
Spaniard	15	0.01%	0.07%
Spanish	250	0.22%	1.22%
Spanish American	16	0.01%	0.08%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,186	2.86%	15.54%

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

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