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)	419,807	80.92%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	99,014	19.08%	100.00%
Mexican	74,321	14.32%	75.06%
Puerto Rican	3,125	0.60%	3.16%
Cuban	557	0.11%	0.56%
Dominican	71	0.01%	0.07%
Central American	4,160	0.80%	4.20%
Costa Rican	110	0.02%	0.11%
Guatemalan	670	0.13%	0.68%
Honduran	160	0.03%	0.16%
Nicaraguan	771	0.15%	0.78%
Panamanian	270	0.05%	0.27%
Salvadorian	1,815	0.35%	1.83%
Other Central American	364	0.07%	0.37%
South American	1,227	0.24%	1.24%
Argentinian	117	0.02%	0.12%
Bolivian	42	0.01%	0.04%
Chilean	135	0.03%	0.14%
Columbian	221	0.04%	0.22%
Ecuadorian	89	0.02%	0.09%
Paraguayan	4	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	441	0.09%	0.45%
Uruguayan	26	0.01%	0.03%
Venezuelan	69	0.01%	0.07%
Other South American	83	0.02%	0.08%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	15,553	3.00%	15.71%
Spaniard	501	0.10%	0.51%
Spanish	3,521	0.68%	3.56%
Spanish American	198	0.04%	0.20%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	11,333	2.18%	11.45%

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

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