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)	123,990	88.24%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	16,528	11.76%	100.00%
Mexican	12,443	8.86%	75.28%
Puerto Rican	519	0.37%	3.14%
Cuban	84	0.06%	0.51%
Dominican	19	0.01%	0.11%
Central American	157	0.11%	0.95%
Costa Rican	5	0.00%	0.03%
Guatemalan	21	0.01%	0.13%
Honduran	18	0.01%	0.11%
Nicaraguan	25	0.02%	0.15%
Panamanian	57	0.04%	0.34%
Salvadorian	26	0.02%	0.16%
Other Central American	5	0.00%	0.03%
South American	150	0.11%	0.91%
Argentinian	4	0.00%	0.02%
Bolivian	1	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	8	0.01%	0.05%
Columbian	58	0.04%	0.35%
Ecuadorian	14	0.01%	0.08%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	42	0.03%	0.25%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	12	0.01%	0.07%
Other South American	10	0.01%	0.06%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,156	2.25%	19.09%
Spaniard	39	0.03%	0.24%
Spanish	339	0.24%	2.05%
Spanish American	23	0.02%	0.14%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,755	1.96%	16.67%

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

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