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)	651,763	98.45%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,284	1.55%	100.00%
Mexican	6,698	1.01%	65.13%
Puerto Rican	659	0.10%	6.41%
Cuban	300	0.05%	2.92%
Dominican	24	0.00%	0.23%
Central American	465	0.07%	4.52%
Costa Rican	64	0.01%	0.62%
Guatemalan	64	0.01%	0.62%
Honduran	114	0.02%	1.11%
Nicaraguan	35	0.01%	0.34%
Panamanian	61	0.01%	0.59%
Salvadorian	109	0.02%	1.06%
Other Central American	18	0.00%	0.18%
South American	400	0.06%	3.89%
Argentinian	46	0.01%	0.45%
Bolivian	5	0.00%	0.05%
Chilean	40	0.01%	0.39%
Columbian	115	0.02%	1.12%
Ecuadorian	38	0.01%	0.37%
Paraguayan	10	0.00%	0.10%
Peruvian	78	0.01%	0.76%
Uruguayan	9	0.00%	0.09%
Venezuelan	37	0.01%	0.36%
Other South American	22	0.00%	0.21%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,738	0.26%	16.90%
Spaniard	24	0.00%	0.23%
Spanish	212	0.03%	2.06%
Spanish American	17	0.00%	0.17%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,485	0.22%	14.44%

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

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