Citrus 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)	114,944	97.34%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,141	2.66%	100.00%
Mexican	450	0.38%	14.33%
Puerto Rican	1,414	1.20%	45.02%
Cuban	354	0.30%	11.27%
Dominican	44	0.04%	1.40%
Central American	120	0.10%	3.82%
Costa Rican	14	0.01%	0.45%
Guatemalan	13	0.01%	0.41%
Honduran	31	0.03%	0.99%
Nicaraguan	14	0.01%	0.45%
Panamanian	29	0.02%	0.92%
Salvadorian	15	0.01%	0.48%
Other Central American	4	0.00%	0.13%
South American	166	0.14%	5.28%
Argentinian	16	0.01%	0.51%
Bolivian	3	0.00%	0.10%
Chilean	5	0.00%	0.16%
Columbian	60	0.05%	1.91%
Ecuadorian	23	0.02%	0.73%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	16	0.01%	0.51%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	25	0.02%	0.80%
Other South American	16	0.01%	0.51%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	593	0.50%	18.88%
Spaniard	22	0.02%	0.70%
Spanish	158	0.13%	5.03%
Spanish American	24	0.02%	0.76%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	389	0.33%	12.38%

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

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