Prince William 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)	253,475	90.26%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	27,338	9.74%	100.00%
Mexican	7,203	2.57%	26.35%
Puerto Rican	3,632	1.29%	13.29%
Cuban	348	0.12%	1.27%
Dominican	328	0.12%	1.20%
Central American	6,426	2.29%	23.51%
Costa Rican	67	0.02%	0.25%
Guatemalan	905	0.32%	3.31%
Honduran	360	0.13%	1.32%
Nicaraguan	275	0.10%	1.01%
Panamanian	360	0.13%	1.32%
Salvadorian	4,129	1.47%	15.10%
Other Central American	330	0.12%	1.21%
South American	2,457	0.87%	8.99%
Argentinian	92	0.03%	0.34%
Bolivian	389	0.14%	1.42%
Chilean	121	0.04%	0.44%
Columbian	360	0.13%	1.32%
Ecuadorian	231	0.08%	0.84%
Paraguayan	7	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	929	0.33%	3.40%
Uruguayan	58	0.02%	0.21%
Venezuelan	126	0.04%	0.46%
Other South American	144	0.05%	0.53%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,944	2.47%	25.40%
Spaniard	125	0.04%	0.46%
Spanish	872	0.31%	3.19%
Spanish American	83	0.03%	0.30%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,864	2.09%	21.45%

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

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