Sacramento 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)	1,027,609	83.99%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	195,890	16.01%	100.00%
Mexican	150,909	12.33%	77.04%
Puerto Rican	5,746	0.47%	2.93%
Cuban	1,238	0.10%	0.63%
Dominican	167	0.01%	0.09%
Central American	4,821	0.39%	2.46%
Costa Rican	222	0.02%	0.11%
Guatemalan	819	0.07%	0.42%
Honduran	280	0.02%	0.14%
Nicaraguan	800	0.07%	0.41%
Panamanian	456	0.04%	0.23%
Salvadorian	1,836	0.15%	0.94%
Other Central American	408	0.03%	0.21%
South American	2,210	0.18%	1.13%
Argentinian	193	0.02%	0.10%
Bolivian	86	0.01%	0.04%
Chilean	324	0.03%	0.17%
Columbian	460	0.04%	0.23%
Ecuadorian	141	0.01%	0.07%
Paraguayan	11	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	618	0.05%	0.32%
Uruguayan	27	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	155	0.01%	0.08%
Other South American	195	0.02%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	30,799	2.52%	15.72%
Spaniard	767	0.06%	0.39%
Spanish	6,692	0.55%	3.42%
Spanish American	258	0.02%	0.13%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	23,082	1.89%	11.78%

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

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