Benton 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)	124,669	87.50%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	17,806	12.50%	100.00%
Mexican	14,447	10.14%	81.14%
Puerto Rican	187	0.13%	1.05%
Cuban	57	0.04%	0.32%
Dominican	7	0.00%	0.04%
Central American	230	0.16%	1.29%
Costa Rican	5	0.00%	0.03%
Guatemalan	68	0.05%	0.38%
Honduran	8	0.01%	0.04%
Nicaraguan	13	0.01%	0.07%
Panamanian	9	0.01%	0.05%
Salvadorian	111	0.08%	0.62%
Other Central American	16	0.01%	0.09%
South American	157	0.11%	0.88%
Argentinian	14	0.01%	0.08%
Bolivian	7	0.00%	0.04%
Chilean	19	0.01%	0.11%
Columbian	47	0.03%	0.26%
Ecuadorian	20	0.01%	0.11%
Paraguayan	3	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	32	0.02%	0.18%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	5	0.00%	0.03%
Other South American	9	0.01%	0.05%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,721	1.91%	15.28%
Spaniard	64	0.04%	0.36%
Spanish	322	0.23%	1.81%
Spanish American	19	0.01%	0.11%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,316	1.63%	13.01%

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

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