Fort Bend 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)	279,581	78.88%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	74,871	21.12%	100.00%
Mexican	51,447	14.51%	68.71%
Puerto Rican	1,195	0.34%	1.60%
Cuban	954	0.27%	1.27%
Dominican	159	0.04%	0.21%
Central American	3,576	1.01%	4.78%
Costa Rican	79	0.02%	0.11%
Guatemalan	326	0.09%	0.44%
Honduran	375	0.11%	0.50%
Nicaraguan	164	0.05%	0.22%
Panamanian	180	0.05%	0.24%
Salvadorian	2,279	0.64%	3.04%
Other Central American	173	0.05%	0.23%
South American	2,322	0.66%	3.10%
Argentinian	224	0.06%	0.30%
Bolivian	76	0.02%	0.10%
Chilean	70	0.02%	0.09%
Columbian	1,053	0.30%	1.41%
Ecuadorian	134	0.04%	0.18%
Paraguayan	32	0.01%	0.04%
Peruvian	233	0.07%	0.31%
Uruguayan	36	0.01%	0.05%
Venezuelan	339	0.10%	0.45%
Other South American	125	0.04%	0.17%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	15,218	4.29%	20.33%
Spaniard	126	0.04%	0.17%
Spanish	991	0.28%	1.32%
Spanish American	75	0.02%	0.10%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	14,026	3.96%	18.73%

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

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