Norfolk city

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)	225,488	96.20%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	8,915	3.80%	100.00%
Mexican	2,624	1.12%	29.43%
Puerto Rican	2,916	1.24%	32.71%
Cuban	294	0.13%	3.30%
Dominican	219	0.09%	2.46%
Central American	490	0.21%	5.50%
Costa Rican	21	0.01%	0.24%
Guatemalan	61	0.03%	0.68%
Honduran	94	0.04%	1.05%
Nicaraguan	29	0.01%	0.33%
Panamanian	148	0.06%	1.66%
Salvadorian	94	0.04%	1.05%
Other Central American	43	0.02%	0.48%
South American	438	0.19%	4.91%
Argentinian	21	0.01%	0.24%
Bolivian	10	0.00%	0.11%
Chilean	24	0.01%	0.27%
Columbian	150	0.06%	1.68%
Ecuadorian	85	0.04%	0.95%
Paraguayan	5	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	92	0.04%	1.03%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	26	0.01%	0.29%
Other South American	23	0.01%	0.26%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,934	0.83%	21.69%
Spaniard	47	0.02%	0.53%
Spanish	330	0.14%	3.70%
Spanish American	37	0.02%	0.42%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,520	0.65%	17.05%

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

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