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)	402,565	87.61%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	56,914	12.39%	100.00%
Mexican	3,537	0.77%	6.21%
Puerto Rican	38,307	8.34%	67.31%
Cuban	1,753	0.38%	3.08%
Dominican	1,149	0.25%	2.02%
Central American	1,936	0.42%	3.40%
Costa Rican	380	0.08%	0.67%
Guatemalan	442	0.10%	0.78%
Honduran	372	0.08%	0.65%
Nicaraguan	67	0.01%	0.12%
Panamanian	96	0.02%	0.17%
Salvadorian	477	0.10%	0.84%
Other Central American	102	0.02%	0.18%
South American	3,792	0.83%	6.66%
Argentinian	199	0.04%	0.35%
Bolivian	42	0.01%	0.07%
Chilean	145	0.03%	0.25%
Columbian	1,306	0.28%	2.29%
Ecuadorian	1,257	0.27%	2.21%
Paraguayan	50	0.01%	0.09%
Peruvian	490	0.11%	0.86%
Uruguayan	42	0.01%	0.07%
Venezuelan	112	0.02%	0.20%
Other South American	149	0.03%	0.26%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,440	1.40%	11.32%
Spaniard	247	0.05%	0.43%
Spanish	770	0.17%	1.35%
Spanish American	92	0.02%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,331	1.16%	9.37%

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

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