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)	591,078	95.61%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	27,125	4.39%	100.00%
Mexican	20,666	3.34%	76.19%
Puerto Rican	1,171	0.19%	4.32%
Cuban	278	0.04%	1.02%
Dominican	32	0.01%	0.12%
Central American	260	0.04%	0.96%
Costa Rican	25	0.00%	0.09%
Guatemalan	39	0.01%	0.14%
Honduran	25	0.00%	0.09%
Nicaraguan	96	0.02%	0.35%
Panamanian	49	0.01%	0.18%
Salvadorian	16	0.00%	0.06%
Other Central American	10	0.00%	0.04%
South American	397	0.06%	1.46%
Argentinian	33	0.01%	0.12%
Bolivian	28	0.00%	0.10%
Chilean	34	0.01%	0.13%
Columbian	109	0.02%	0.40%
Ecuadorian	28	0.00%	0.10%
Paraguayan	21	0.00%	0.08%
Peruvian	50	0.01%	0.18%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	61	0.01%	0.22%
Other South American	32	0.01%	0.12%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,321	0.70%	15.93%
Spaniard	57	0.01%	0.21%
Spanish	542	0.09%	2.00%
Spanish American	27	0.00%	0.10%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,695	0.60%	13.62%

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

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