Pueblo 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)	87,762	62.03%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	53,710	37.97%	100.00%
Mexican	23,268	16.45%	43.32%
Puerto Rican	425	0.30%	0.79%
Cuban	53	0.04%	0.10%
Dominican	1	0.00%	0.00%
Central American	90	0.06%	0.17%
Costa Rican	15	0.01%	0.03%
Guatemalan	14	0.01%	0.03%
Honduran	13	0.01%	0.02%
Nicaraguan	5	0.00%	0.01%
Panamanian	11	0.01%	0.02%
Salvadorian	29	0.02%	0.05%
Other Central American	3	0.00%	0.01%
South American	87	0.06%	0.16%
Argentinian	2	0.00%	0.00%
Bolivian	5	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	16	0.01%	0.03%
Columbian	27	0.02%	0.05%
Ecuadorian	2	0.00%	0.00%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	16	0.01%	0.03%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	17	0.01%	0.03%
Other South American	2	0.00%	0.00%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	29,786	21.05%	55.46%
Spaniard	126	0.09%	0.23%
Spanish	5,727	4.05%	10.66%
Spanish American	1,147	0.81%	2.14%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	22,786	16.11%	42.42%

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

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