Tables for Race and Ethnic Distributions in the United States
Based on the Public Law 94-171 File from the 2000 Census

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has tabulated data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 Census by race and ethnicity and by geographic area. In the first set of tables, the data are presented by single race groups and the four largest multiple race groups. In the second set of tables, the data are presented for all smaller multiple race categories that are one percent or more of a geographic area. The data are tabulated by the revised OMB race and ethnic categories specified in the October 1997 Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. The data are tabulated for the United States as a whole, each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Metropolitan Areas, counties and places of 50,000 or more. The data are being made available by EEOC for the purpose of enhancing public information on the latest Census data on race and ethnicity, including multiple race categories, by geographic area.

The data for the following tables on race and ethnicity, for the population 18 years and over, are from the 2000 decennial Census, as tabulated from the Public Law 94-171 File. The 2000 decennial Census was the first nationwide implementation of the October 1997 OMB standards for data on race and ethnicity that, among other things, allowed for the reporting of multiple race data and the separate reporting of ethnic and race data. The Public Law 94-171 file was available from the Bureau of Census web site by April 1, 2001, and was obtained for EEOC by EEOVisions, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland.

Tables for Race and Ethnic Distributions by Five Single Race Groups, the Some Other Race Group, Four Multiple Race Groups, and the Balance of Multiple Race Groups

Tables for Race and Ethnic Distributions by the One Percent Multiple Race Groups, not including the Four Largest Multiple Race Groups

This page was last modified on April 17, 2002.

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