Monroe 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)	129,492	93.37%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	9,195	6.63%	100.00%
Mexican	410	0.30%	4.46%
Puerto Rican	5,281	3.81%	57.43%
Cuban	387	0.28%	4.21%
Dominican	413	0.30%	4.49%
Central American	314	0.23%	3.41%
Costa Rican	25	0.02%	0.27%
Guatemalan	45	0.03%	0.49%
Honduran	77	0.06%	0.84%
Nicaraguan	23	0.02%	0.25%
Panamanian	59	0.04%	0.64%
Salvadorian	73	0.05%	0.79%
Other Central American	12	0.01%	0.13%
South American	774	0.56%	8.42%
Argentinian	51	0.04%	0.55%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.02%
Chilean	20	0.01%	0.22%
Columbian	301	0.22%	3.27%
Ecuadorian	143	0.10%	1.56%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	186	0.13%	2.02%
Uruguayan	11	0.01%	0.12%
Venezuelan	31	0.02%	0.34%
Other South American	28	0.02%	0.30%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,616	1.17%	17.57%
Spaniard	62	0.04%	0.67%
Spanish	285	0.21%	3.10%
Spanish American	22	0.02%	0.24%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,247	0.90%	13.56%

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

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