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)	343,745	92.59%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	27,491	7.41%	100.00%
Mexican	22,207	5.98%	80.78%
Puerto Rican	968	0.26%	3.52%
Cuban	500	0.13%	1.82%
Dominican	61	0.02%	0.22%
Central American	366	0.10%	1.33%
Costa Rican	52	0.01%	0.19%
Guatemalan	138	0.04%	0.50%
Honduran	70	0.02%	0.25%
Nicaraguan	10	0.00%	0.04%
Panamanian	26	0.01%	0.09%
Salvadorian	59	0.02%	0.21%
Other Central American	11	0.00%	0.04%
South American	507	0.14%	1.84%
Argentinian	19	0.01%	0.07%
Bolivian	16	0.00%	0.06%
Chilean	39	0.01%	0.14%
Columbian	267	0.07%	0.97%
Ecuadorian	37	0.01%	0.13%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	71	0.02%	0.26%
Uruguayan	21	0.01%	0.08%
Venezuelan	15	0.00%	0.05%
Other South American	21	0.01%	0.08%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,882	0.78%	10.48%
Spaniard	18	0.00%	0.07%
Spanish	331	0.09%	1.20%
Spanish American	19	0.01%	0.07%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,514	0.68%	9.14%

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

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