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)	1,009,119	98.39%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	16,479	1.61%	100.00%
Mexican	7,591	0.74%	46.06%
Puerto Rican	1,858	0.18%	11.27%
Cuban	2,436	0.24%	14.78%
Dominican	50	0.00%	0.30%
Central American	847	0.08%	5.14%
Costa Rican	26	0.00%	0.16%
Guatemalan	327	0.03%	1.98%
Honduran	79	0.01%	0.48%
Nicaraguan	45	0.00%	0.27%
Panamanian	134	0.01%	0.81%
Salvadorian	209	0.02%	1.27%
Other Central American	27	0.00%	0.16%
South American	694	0.07%	4.21%
Argentinian	71	0.01%	0.43%
Bolivian	36	0.00%	0.22%
Chilean	54	0.01%	0.33%
Columbian	182	0.02%	1.10%
Ecuadorian	89	0.01%	0.54%
Paraguayan	23	0.00%	0.14%
Peruvian	126	0.01%	0.76%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	73	0.01%	0.44%
Other South American	35	0.00%	0.21%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,003	0.29%	18.22%
Spaniard	52	0.01%	0.32%
Spanish	372	0.04%	2.26%
Spanish American	36	0.00%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,543	0.25%	15.43%

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

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