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)	401,250	97.35%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,903	2.65%	100.00%
Mexican	3,595	0.87%	32.97%
Puerto Rican	2,511	0.61%	23.03%
Cuban	861	0.21%	7.90%
Dominican	113	0.03%	1.04%
Central American	540	0.13%	4.95%
Costa Rican	56	0.01%	0.51%
Guatemalan	86	0.02%	0.79%
Honduran	85	0.02%	0.78%
Nicaraguan	37	0.01%	0.34%
Panamanian	207	0.05%	1.90%
Salvadorian	60	0.01%	0.55%
Other Central American	9	0.00%	0.08%
South American	555	0.13%	5.09%
Argentinian	57	0.01%	0.52%
Bolivian	28	0.01%	0.26%
Chilean	27	0.01%	0.25%
Columbian	222	0.05%	2.04%
Ecuadorian	53	0.01%	0.49%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	83	0.02%	0.76%
Uruguayan	9	0.00%	0.08%
Venezuelan	44	0.01%	0.40%
Other South American	31	0.01%	0.28%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,728	0.66%	25.02%
Spaniard	133	0.03%	1.22%
Spanish	656	0.16%	6.02%
Spanish American	43	0.01%	0.39%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,896	0.46%	17.39%

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

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