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)	551,277	93.44%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	38,682	6.56%	100.00%
Mexican	21,036	3.57%	54.38%
Puerto Rican	5,327	0.90%	13.77%
Cuban	2,932	0.50%	7.58%
Dominican	345	0.06%	0.89%
Central American	1,719	0.29%	4.44%
Costa Rican	102	0.02%	0.26%
Guatemalan	347	0.06%	0.90%
Honduran	586	0.10%	1.51%
Nicaraguan	236	0.04%	0.61%
Panamanian	118	0.02%	0.31%
Salvadorian	249	0.04%	0.64%
Other Central American	81	0.01%	0.21%
South American	2,270	0.38%	5.87%
Argentinian	254	0.04%	0.66%
Bolivian	29	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	118	0.02%	0.31%
Columbian	946	0.16%	2.45%
Ecuadorian	161	0.03%	0.42%
Paraguayan	17	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	399	0.07%	1.03%
Uruguayan	30	0.01%	0.08%
Venezuelan	230	0.04%	0.59%
Other South American	86	0.01%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,053	0.86%	13.06%
Spaniard	148	0.03%	0.38%
Spanish	786	0.13%	2.03%
Spanish American	95	0.02%	0.25%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,024	0.68%	10.40%

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

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