Napa 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)	94,863	76.33%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	29,416	23.67%	100.00%
Mexican	25,226	20.30%	85.76%
Puerto Rican	324	0.26%	1.10%
Cuban	110	0.09%	0.37%
Dominican	6	0.00%	0.02%
Central American	594	0.48%	2.02%
Costa Rican	36	0.03%	0.12%
Guatemalan	186	0.15%	0.63%
Honduran	35	0.03%	0.12%
Nicaraguan	64	0.05%	0.22%
Panamanian	21	0.02%	0.07%
Salvadorian	206	0.17%	0.70%
Other Central American	46	0.04%	0.16%
South American	224	0.18%	0.76%
Argentinian	51	0.04%	0.17%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	26	0.02%	0.09%
Columbian	54	0.04%	0.18%
Ecuadorian	19	0.02%	0.06%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	50	0.04%	0.17%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	7	0.01%	0.02%
Other South American	11	0.01%	0.04%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,932	2.36%	9.97%
Spaniard	84	0.07%	0.29%
Spanish	609	0.49%	2.07%
Spanish American	28	0.02%	0.10%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,211	1.78%	7.52%

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

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