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)	247,825	98.22%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	4,495	1.78%	100.00%
Mexican	551	0.22%	12.26%
Puerto Rican	2,109	0.84%	46.92%
Cuban	230	0.09%	5.12%
Dominican	213	0.08%	4.74%
Central American	165	0.07%	3.67%
Costa Rican	19	0.01%	0.42%
Guatemalan	38	0.02%	0.85%
Honduran	24	0.01%	0.53%
Nicaraguan	16	0.01%	0.36%
Panamanian	42	0.02%	0.93%
Salvadorian	21	0.01%	0.47%
Other Central American	5	0.00%	0.11%
South American	334	0.13%	7.43%
Argentinian	50	0.02%	1.11%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.13%
Chilean	27	0.01%	0.60%
Columbian	91	0.04%	2.02%
Ecuadorian	64	0.03%	1.42%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	58	0.02%	1.29%
Uruguayan	7	0.00%	0.16%
Venezuelan	20	0.01%	0.44%
Other South American	10	0.00%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	893	0.35%	19.87%
Spaniard	37	0.01%	0.82%
Spanish	163	0.06%	3.63%
Spanish American	5	0.00%	0.11%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	688	0.27%	15.31%

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

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