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)	284,720	91.51%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	26,401	8.49%	100.00%
Mexican	19,325	6.21%	73.20%
Puerto Rican	369	0.12%	1.40%
Cuban	148	0.05%	0.56%
Dominican	23	0.01%	0.09%
Central American	2,517	0.81%	9.53%
Costa Rican	38	0.01%	0.14%
Guatemalan	307	0.10%	1.16%
Honduran	151	0.05%	0.57%
Nicaraguan	78	0.03%	0.30%
Panamanian	48	0.02%	0.18%
Salvadorian	1,822	0.59%	6.90%
Other Central American	73	0.02%	0.28%
South American	358	0.12%	1.36%
Argentinian	12	0.00%	0.05%
Bolivian	71	0.02%	0.27%
Chilean	31	0.01%	0.12%
Columbian	85	0.03%	0.32%
Ecuadorian	33	0.01%	0.12%
Paraguayan	3	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	71	0.02%	0.27%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	29	0.01%	0.11%
Other South American	23	0.01%	0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,661	1.18%	13.87%
Spaniard	45	0.01%	0.17%
Spanish	385	0.12%	1.46%
Spanish American	22	0.01%	0.08%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,209	1.03%	12.15%

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

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