El Dorado 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)	141,733	90.68%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	14,566	9.32%	100.00%
Mexican	10,871	6.96%	74.63%
Puerto Rican	340	0.22%	2.33%
Cuban	104	0.07%	0.71%
Dominican	5	0.00%	0.03%
Central American	361	0.23%	2.48%
Costa Rican	21	0.01%	0.14%
Guatemalan	39	0.02%	0.27%
Honduran	15	0.01%	0.10%
Nicaraguan	57	0.04%	0.39%
Panamanian	6	0.00%	0.04%
Salvadorian	189	0.12%	1.30%
Other Central American	34	0.02%	0.23%
South American	168	0.11%	1.15%
Argentinian	35	0.02%	0.24%
Bolivian	19	0.01%	0.13%
Chilean	18	0.01%	0.12%
Columbian	36	0.02%	0.25%
Ecuadorian	6	0.00%	0.04%
Paraguayan	3	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	17	0.01%	0.12%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	6	0.00%	0.04%
Other South American	23	0.01%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,717	1.74%	18.65%
Spaniard	75	0.05%	0.51%
Spanish	775	0.50%	5.32%
Spanish American	24	0.02%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,843	1.18%	12.65%

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

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