Johnson 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)	433,129	96.02%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	17,957	3.98%	100.00%
Mexican	12,872	2.85%	71.68%
Puerto Rican	584	0.13%	3.25%
Cuban	437	0.10%	2.43%
Dominican	50	0.01%	0.28%
Central American	553	0.12%	3.08%
Costa Rican	44	0.01%	0.25%
Guatemalan	150	0.03%	0.84%
Honduran	116	0.03%	0.65%
Nicaraguan	33	0.01%	0.18%
Panamanian	61	0.01%	0.34%
Salvadorian	120	0.03%	0.67%
Other Central American	29	0.01%	0.16%
South American	933	0.21%	5.20%
Argentinian	90	0.02%	0.50%
Bolivian	59	0.01%	0.33%
Chilean	26	0.01%	0.14%
Columbian	279	0.06%	1.55%
Ecuadorian	118	0.03%	0.66%
Paraguayan	24	0.01%	0.13%
Peruvian	144	0.03%	0.80%
Uruguayan	4	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	115	0.03%	0.64%
Other South American	74	0.02%	0.41%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,528	0.56%	14.08%
Spaniard	56	0.01%	0.31%
Spanish	441	0.10%	2.46%
Spanish American	36	0.01%	0.20%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,995	0.44%	11.11%

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

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