Missouri's Multi-Race Population 2000
The 2000 Census, for the first time, included a "multi-race" category that respondents could choose to describe their race. There were 82,061 Missourians who thus described themselves as "multi-racial" in their response to the 2000 Census. Since 2000 was the first time that "multi-racial" has been included in the Census there is no way of knowing what, if any, change occurred in that portion of the population during the 1990s. Multi-racial people accounted for 1.5 percent of Missouri's total 2000 population.
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There were residents in all Missouri counties who reported themselves as multi-racial. The number of multi-racial persons per county ranged from as low as 10 in Worth County to a high of 14,766 in Jackson County (Kansas City). In contrast to some of the other racial groups there is relatively little concentration of multi-racial population. As shown on Map 1 the multi-racial population is more proportionately distributed throughout the state than other racial/ethnic groups. Ninety-two Missouri counties had more than 100 people who had identified themselves as multi-racial. There were only 11 counties in which the multi-racial population was greater than 1,000, (Table 1). Three counties, Greene, Jackson and St. Louis, along with St. Louis City had a multi-racial population of greater than 4,000. Table 2 provides information for each county.
Table 1
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Distribution of Missouri 2000 Multi-racial Population By Region
Multi-racial Population of UM Extension Regions
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OSEDA Regional Grouping of Counties Many demographic factors vary by region within the state of Missouri. For the convenience of our user community, OSEDA prepares tables using three different regional groupings of counties: Extension, Economic Development and Transportation. For each of these groupings, one table summarizes the indicators by regional total and a second table shows values for each county grouped by region. Users may select the county grouping most helpful for their application and understanding. |
The 82,061 Missourians, who identified themselves as "multi-racial" in the 2000 Census, are distributed proportionately among the eight Missouri Extension Regions. The proportion of multi-racial population in each of the eight Extension regions ranged from a low of 0.9 percent of the region's total population in the Northeast to a high of 2.0 percent of total population in the West Central Region. The proportion of multi-racial residents ranged between 1.0 and 1.7 percent of total population in each of the remaining six regions.
Among the eight regions the greatest multi-racial population in 2000 resided in the East Central region (St. Louis) with 26,809, followed by West Central (Kansas City) with 22,854, and Southwest (Springfield) with 12,269. Seventy-five percent of Missouri's total multi-racial population was residing in one of these three regions.
Multi-racial Population of Department of Transportation Districts
Multi-racial Missourians are proportionately distributed among the ten MODOT Districts. In each of the districts multi-racial people accounted for at least 1.0 percent and no more than 2.0 percent of district's total population. Among the ten districts only two, St. Louis with 25,079 multi-racial persons and Kansas City with 22,389 multi-racial persons had a multi-racial population in excess of 7,600. Fifty-eight percent of Missouri's total multi-racial population was residing in either the St. Louis or the Kansas City District.
Not only is the multi-racial population proportionately distributed among the districts but among the counties within districts as well. There was multi-racial population in every county but in only eight of Missouri's 114 counties did the multi-racial population exceed two percent of total county population. The largest proportion of multi-racial population (3.6 percent of county total) was in Pulaski - the location of Fort Leonard Wood.
Multi-racial Population of Department of Economic Development RegionsMissouri's 2000 multi-racial population is very proportionately distributed among the state's regions and counties. Multi-racial persons accounted for 1.5 percent of Missouri's total 2000 population and, as indicated in Table 3, there is little variation from that proportion among the 13 DED regions. Among the regions the multi-racial population ranged from a low of 0.8 percent of total region population (North Central Region) to a high of 2.0 percent of the total Kansas City MSA population.
Additional tables are attached which report Missouri's Multi-Race Population for three different sets of regions: eight University of Missouri Extension regions; 10 Missouri Department of Transportation regions; and 13 Missouri Department of Economic Development regions.
| Detailed Tables Missouri's MultiRace Population | ||
| The following links provide detailed tables Missouri's MultiRace Population. They are in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) formats. | ||
| All Missouri Counties | ||
| Total and MultiRace Population in Missouri, 2000 - By County with State Totals | HTML | |
| Regional Tables | ||
| UO/E Regions | ||
| Total and MultiRace Population in Missouri, 2000 - By UM Extension Region | HTML | |
| Total and MultiRace Population in Missouri, 2000 - By County Within UM Extension Region | HTML | |
| DED Regions | ||
| Total and MultiRace Population in Missouri, 2000 - By DED Region | HTML | |
| Total and MultiRace Population in Missouri, 2000 - By County Within DED Region | HTML | |
| MoDOT Regions | ||
| Total and MultiRace Population in Missouri, 2000 - By DOT District | HTML | |
| Total and MultiRace Population in Missouri, 2000 - By County Within DOT District | HTML | |
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