Athens, GA

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)	145,668	94.93%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	7,776	5.07%	100.00%
Mexican	4,990	3.25%	64.17%
Puerto Rican	474	0.31%	6.10%
Cuban	207	0.13%	2.66%
Dominican	25	0.02%	0.32%
Central American	520	0.34%	6.69%
Costa Rican	16	0.01%	0.21%
Guatemalan	108	0.07%	1.39%
Honduran	41	0.03%	0.53%
Nicaraguan	17	0.01%	0.22%
Panamanian	28	0.02%	0.36%
Salvadorian	277	0.18%	3.56%
Other Central American	33	0.02%	0.42%
South American	620	0.40%	7.97%
Argentinian	37	0.02%	0.48%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.08%
Chilean	17	0.01%	0.22%
Columbian	138	0.09%	1.77%
Ecuadorian	24	0.02%	0.31%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.08%
Peruvian	306	0.20%	3.94%
Uruguayan	17	0.01%	0.22%
Venezuelan	44	0.03%	0.57%
Other South American	25	0.02%	0.32%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	940	0.61%	12.09%
Spaniard	24	0.02%	0.31%
Spanish	77	0.05%	0.99%
Spanish American	10	0.01%	0.13%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	829	0.54%	10.66%

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

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