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)	111,171	79.89%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	27,978	20.11%	100.00%
Mexican	23,725	17.05%	84.80%
Puerto Rican	414	0.30%	1.48%
Cuban	76	0.05%	0.27%
Dominican	8	0.01%	0.03%
Central American	238	0.17%	0.85%
Costa Rican	12	0.01%	0.04%
Guatemalan	38	0.03%	0.14%
Honduran	18	0.01%	0.06%
Nicaraguan	42	0.03%	0.15%
Panamanian	42	0.03%	0.15%
Salvadorian	67	0.05%	0.24%
Other Central American	19	0.01%	0.07%
South American	116	0.08%	0.41%
Argentinian	19	0.01%	0.07%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	11	0.01%	0.04%
Columbian	30	0.02%	0.11%
Ecuadorian	6	0.00%	0.02%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	41	0.03%	0.15%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Other South American	5	0.00%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,401	2.44%	12.16%
Spaniard	81	0.06%	0.29%
Spanish	599	0.43%	2.14%
Spanish American	20	0.01%	0.07%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,701	1.94%	9.65%

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

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