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)	160,389	98.65%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,193	1.35%	100.00%
Mexican	378	0.23%	17.24%
Puerto Rican	752	0.46%	34.29%
Cuban	116	0.07%	5.29%
Dominican	78	0.05%	3.56%
Central American	112	0.07%	5.11%
Costa Rican	7	0.00%	0.32%
Guatemalan	17	0.01%	0.78%
Honduran	21	0.01%	0.96%
Nicaraguan	5	0.00%	0.23%
Panamanian	6	0.00%	0.27%
Salvadorian	53	0.03%	2.42%
Other Central American	3	0.00%	0.14%
South American	197	0.12%	8.98%
Argentinian	11	0.01%	0.50%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.18%
Chilean	19	0.01%	0.87%
Columbian	64	0.04%	2.92%
Ecuadorian	35	0.02%	1.60%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.05%
Peruvian	23	0.01%	1.05%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.05%
Venezuelan	11	0.01%	0.50%
Other South American	28	0.02%	1.28%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	560	0.34%	25.54%
Spaniard	26	0.02%	1.19%
Spanish	91	0.06%	4.15%
Spanish American	5	0.00%	0.23%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	438	0.27%	19.97%

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

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