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)	776,346	48.75%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	816,037	51.25%	100.00%
Mexican	572,323	35.94%	70.13%
Puerto Rican	10,622	0.67%	1.30%
Cuban	1,897	0.12%	0.23%
Dominican	382	0.02%	0.05%
Central American	4,438	0.28%	0.54%
Costa Rican	191	0.01%	0.02%
Guatemalan	727	0.05%	0.09%
Honduran	745	0.05%	0.09%
Nicaraguan	482	0.03%	0.06%
Panamanian	1,225	0.08%	0.15%
Salvadorian	814	0.05%	0.10%
Other Central American	254	0.02%	0.03%
South American	2,885	0.18%	0.35%
Argentinian	253	0.02%	0.03%
Bolivian	101	0.01%	0.01%
Chilean	193	0.01%	0.02%
Columbian	1,113	0.07%	0.14%
Ecuadorian	158	0.01%	0.02%
Paraguayan	35	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	586	0.04%	0.07%
Uruguayan	32	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	234	0.01%	0.03%
Other South American	180	0.01%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	223,490	14.03%	27.39%
Spaniard	997	0.06%	0.12%
Spanish	9,111	0.57%	1.12%
Spanish American	684	0.04%	0.08%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	212,698	13.36%	26.06%

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

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