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)	263,697	96.02%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,927	3.98%	100.00%
Mexican	3,666	1.33%	33.55%
Puerto Rican	3,450	1.26%	31.57%
Cuban	246	0.09%	2.25%
Dominican	155	0.06%	1.42%
Central American	1,014	0.37%	9.28%
Costa Rican	33	0.01%	0.30%
Guatemalan	188	0.07%	1.72%
Honduran	75	0.03%	0.69%
Nicaraguan	41	0.01%	0.38%
Panamanian	593	0.22%	5.43%
Salvadorian	62	0.02%	0.57%
Other Central American	22	0.01%	0.20%
South American	501	0.18%	4.58%
Argentinian	17	0.01%	0.16%
Bolivian	40	0.01%	0.37%
Chilean	13	0.00%	0.12%
Columbian	210	0.08%	1.92%
Ecuadorian	44	0.02%	0.40%
Paraguayan	8	0.00%	0.07%
Peruvian	58	0.02%	0.53%
Uruguayan	8	0.00%	0.07%
Venezuelan	86	0.03%	0.79%
Other South American	17	0.01%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,895	0.69%	17.34%
Spaniard	50	0.02%	0.46%
Spanish	257	0.09%	2.35%
Spanish American	35	0.01%	0.32%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,553	0.57%	14.21%

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

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