Litchfield 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)	178,299	97.86%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,894	2.14%	100.00%
Mexican	412	0.23%	10.58%
Puerto Rican	1,462	0.80%	37.54%
Cuban	216	0.12%	5.55%
Dominican	358	0.20%	9.19%
Central American	85	0.05%	2.18%
Costa Rican	17	0.01%	0.44%
Guatemalan	27	0.01%	0.69%
Honduran	7	0.00%	0.18%
Nicaraguan	1	0.00%	0.03%
Panamanian	8	0.00%	0.21%
Salvadorian	19	0.01%	0.49%
Other Central American	6	0.00%	0.15%
South American	529	0.29%	13.59%
Argentinian	31	0.02%	0.80%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.15%
Chilean	29	0.02%	0.74%
Columbian	158	0.09%	4.06%
Ecuadorian	186	0.10%	4.78%
Paraguayan	4	0.00%	0.10%
Peruvian	55	0.03%	1.41%
Uruguayan	11	0.01%	0.28%
Venezuelan	30	0.02%	0.77%
Other South American	19	0.01%	0.49%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	832	0.46%	21.37%
Spaniard	50	0.03%	1.28%
Spanish	227	0.12%	5.83%
Spanish American	14	0.01%	0.36%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	541	0.30%	13.89%

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

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