Race relations
A breakdown of race local, state and national
Of the 220,000 people living in Butte County, a vast majority—80.8 percent—are white. There are 38,041,400 people living in California, 74 percent of whom are white. Nationwide, 78.1 percent of the country’s 313,914,000 residents are white. See below for a further look at the demograhics:
| Butte County | California | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native American | 1.4% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Asian | 4.2% | 13.6% | 5.0% |
| Black | 2.1% | 6.6% | 13.1% |
| Hispanic* | 15.4% | 38.1% | 16.7% |
| Native Hawaiian | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.2% |
* Some respondents listed their race as both Hispanic and white.
Source: The Butte County Department of Behavioral Health and the U.S. Census Bureau.
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