Hays 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)	68,730	70.43%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	28,859	29.57%	100.00%
Mexican	21,258	21.78%	73.66%
Puerto Rican	315	0.32%	1.09%
Cuban	80	0.08%	0.28%
Dominican	17	0.02%	0.06%
Central American	180	0.18%	0.62%
Costa Rican	6	0.01%	0.02%
Guatemalan	35	0.04%	0.12%
Honduran	25	0.03%	0.09%
Nicaraguan	20	0.02%	0.07%
Panamanian	24	0.02%	0.08%
Salvadorian	58	0.06%	0.20%
Other Central American	12	0.01%	0.04%
South American	101	0.10%	0.35%
Argentinian	3	0.00%	0.01%
Bolivian	9	0.01%	0.03%
Chilean	11	0.01%	0.04%
Columbian	34	0.03%	0.12%
Ecuadorian	12	0.01%	0.04%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	11	0.01%	0.04%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	9	0.01%	0.03%
Other South American	10	0.01%	0.03%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,908	7.08%	23.94%
Spaniard	44	0.05%	0.15%
Spanish	287	0.29%	0.99%
Spanish American	30	0.03%	0.10%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,547	6.71%	22.69%

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

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