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)	414,232	93.43%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	29,111	6.57%	100.00%
Mexican	7,733	1.74%	26.56%
Puerto Rican	13,546	3.06%	46.53%
Cuban	1,570	0.35%	5.39%
Dominican	452	0.10%	1.55%
Central American	789	0.18%	2.71%
Costa Rican	122	0.03%	0.42%
Guatemalan	83	0.02%	0.29%
Honduran	138	0.03%	0.47%
Nicaraguan	100	0.02%	0.34%
Panamanian	173	0.04%	0.59%
Salvadorian	134	0.03%	0.46%
Other Central American	39	0.01%	0.13%
South American	1,541	0.35%	5.29%
Argentinian	132	0.03%	0.45%
Bolivian	22	0.00%	0.08%
Chilean	101	0.02%	0.35%
Columbian	592	0.13%	2.03%
Ecuadorian	210	0.05%	0.72%
Paraguayan	7	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	141	0.03%	0.48%
Uruguayan	49	0.01%	0.17%
Venezuelan	190	0.04%	0.65%
Other South American	97	0.02%	0.33%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,480	0.78%	11.95%
Spaniard	147	0.03%	0.50%
Spanish	556	0.13%	1.91%
Spanish American	63	0.01%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,714	0.61%	9.32%

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

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