Lake 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)	425,436	87.80%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	59,128	12.20%	100.00%
Mexican	43,104	8.90%	72.90%
Puerto Rican	9,495	1.96%	16.06%
Cuban	372	0.08%	0.63%
Dominican	49	0.01%	0.08%
Central American	477	0.10%	0.81%
Costa Rican	19	0.00%	0.03%
Guatemalan	163	0.03%	0.28%
Honduran	108	0.02%	0.18%
Nicaraguan	43	0.01%	0.07%
Panamanian	50	0.01%	0.08%
Salvadorian	73	0.02%	0.12%
Other Central American	21	0.00%	0.04%
South American	310	0.06%	0.52%
Argentinian	56	0.01%	0.09%
Bolivian	31	0.01%	0.05%
Chilean	20	0.00%	0.03%
Columbian	78	0.02%	0.13%
Ecuadorian	35	0.01%	0.06%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	70	0.01%	0.12%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	8	0.00%	0.01%
Other South American	10	0.00%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,321	1.10%	9.00%
Spaniard	74	0.02%	0.13%
Spanish	550	0.11%	0.93%
Spanish American	36	0.01%	0.06%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,661	0.96%	7.88%

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

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