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)	878,722	95.36%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	42,760	4.64%	100.00%
Mexican	11,230	1.22%	26.26%
Puerto Rican	12,600	1.37%	29.47%
Cuban	4,394	0.48%	10.28%
Dominican	768	0.08%	1.80%
Central American	1,523	0.17%	3.56%
Costa Rican	286	0.03%	0.67%
Guatemalan	218	0.02%	0.51%
Honduran	234	0.03%	0.55%
Nicaraguan	150	0.02%	0.35%
Panamanian	327	0.04%	0.76%
Salvadorian	251	0.03%	0.59%
Other Central American	57	0.01%	0.13%
South American	4,393	0.48%	10.27%
Argentinian	279	0.03%	0.65%
Bolivian	107	0.01%	0.25%
Chilean	165	0.02%	0.39%
Columbian	1,787	0.19%	4.18%
Ecuadorian	450	0.05%	1.05%
Paraguayan	17	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	579	0.06%	1.35%
Uruguayan	41	0.00%	0.10%
Venezuelan	754	0.08%	1.76%
Other South American	214	0.02%	0.50%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	7,852	0.85%	18.36%
Spaniard	443	0.05%	1.04%
Spanish	1,656	0.18%	3.87%
Spanish American	151	0.02%	0.35%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,602	0.61%	13.10%

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

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