Levy 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)	33,111	96.11%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	1,339	3.89%	100.00%
Mexican	449	1.30%	33.53%
Puerto Rican	395	1.15%	29.50%
Cuban	186	0.54%	13.89%
Dominican	1	0.00%	0.07%
Central American	57	0.17%	4.26%
Costa Rican	5	0.01%	0.37%
Guatemalan	18	0.05%	1.34%
Honduran	19	0.06%	1.42%
Nicaraguan	5	0.01%	0.37%
Panamanian	1	0.00%	0.07%
Salvadorian	7	0.02%	0.52%
Other Central American	2	0.01%	0.15%
South American	53	0.15%	3.96%
Argentinian	3	0.01%	0.22%
Bolivian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	1	0.00%	0.07%
Columbian	30	0.09%	2.24%
Ecuadorian	2	0.01%	0.15%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	12	0.03%	0.90%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	2	0.01%	0.15%
Other South American	3	0.01%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	198	0.57%	14.79%
Spaniard	12	0.03%	0.90%
Spanish	18	0.05%	1.34%
Spanish American	2	0.01%	0.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	166	0.48%	12.40%

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

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