Gregg 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)	101,196	90.86%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,183	9.14%	100.00%
Mexican	8,612	7.73%	84.57%
Puerto Rican	106	0.10%	1.04%
Cuban	41	0.04%	0.40%
Dominican	4	0.00%	0.04%
Central American	141	0.13%	1.38%
Costa Rican	1	0.00%	0.01%
Guatemalan	39	0.04%	0.38%
Honduran	33	0.03%	0.32%
Nicaraguan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Panamanian	5	0.00%	0.05%
Salvadorian	50	0.04%	0.49%
Other Central American	12	0.01%	0.12%
South American	54	0.05%	0.53%
Argentinian	5	0.00%	0.05%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.04%
Chilean	7	0.01%	0.07%
Columbian	8	0.01%	0.08%
Ecuadorian	5	0.00%	0.05%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	15	0.01%	0.15%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	9	0.01%	0.09%
Other South American	1	0.00%	0.01%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,225	1.10%	12.03%
Spaniard	8	0.01%	0.08%
Spanish	91	0.08%	0.89%
Spanish American	12	0.01%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,114	1.00%	10.94%

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

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