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)	571,508	97.89%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	12,337	2.11%	100.00%
Mexican	7,697	1.32%	62.39%
Puerto Rican	849	0.15%	6.88%
Cuban	246	0.04%	1.99%
Dominican	17	0.00%	0.14%
Central American	523	0.09%	4.24%
Costa Rican	19	0.00%	0.15%
Guatemalan	137	0.02%	1.11%
Honduran	82	0.01%	0.66%
Nicaraguan	52	0.01%	0.42%
Panamanian	94	0.02%	0.76%
Salvadorian	111	0.02%	0.90%
Other Central American	28	0.00%	0.23%
South American	267	0.05%	2.16%
Argentinian	45	0.01%	0.36%
Bolivian	14	0.00%	0.11%
Chilean	44	0.01%	0.36%
Columbian	56	0.01%	0.45%
Ecuadorian	20	0.00%	0.16%
Paraguayan	2	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	31	0.01%	0.25%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	44	0.01%	0.36%
Other South American	9	0.00%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,738	0.47%	22.19%
Spaniard	41	0.01%	0.33%
Spanish	451	0.08%	3.66%
Spanish American	57	0.01%	0.46%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,189	0.37%	17.74%

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

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