Boone 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)	133,041	98.22%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,413	1.78%	100.00%
Mexican	1,306	0.96%	54.12%
Puerto Rican	182	0.13%	7.54%
Cuban	109	0.08%	4.52%
Dominican	14	0.01%	0.58%
Central American	108	0.08%	4.48%
Costa Rican	9	0.01%	0.37%
Guatemalan	19	0.01%	0.79%
Honduran	17	0.01%	0.70%
Nicaraguan	14	0.01%	0.58%
Panamanian	26	0.02%	1.08%
Salvadorian	19	0.01%	0.79%
Other Central American	4	0.00%	0.17%
South American	162	0.12%	6.71%
Argentinian	18	0.01%	0.75%
Bolivian	13	0.01%	0.54%
Chilean	8	0.01%	0.33%
Columbian	32	0.02%	1.33%
Ecuadorian	7	0.01%	0.29%
Paraguayan	5	0.00%	0.21%
Peruvian	47	0.03%	1.95%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.21%
Venezuelan	17	0.01%	0.70%
Other South American	10	0.01%	0.41%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	532	0.39%	22.05%
Spaniard	22	0.02%	0.91%
Spanish	79	0.06%	3.27%
Spanish American	12	0.01%	0.50%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	419	0.31%	17.36%

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

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