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)	286,475	97.30%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	7,935	2.70%	100.00%
Mexican	2,679	0.91%	33.76%
Puerto Rican	1,843	0.63%	23.23%
Cuban	624	0.21%	7.86%
Dominican	80	0.03%	1.01%
Central American	393	0.13%	4.95%
Costa Rican	38	0.01%	0.48%
Guatemalan	60	0.02%	0.76%
Honduran	64	0.02%	0.81%
Nicaraguan	28	0.01%	0.35%
Panamanian	152	0.05%	1.92%
Salvadorian	44	0.01%	0.55%
Other Central American	7	0.00%	0.09%
South American	400	0.14%	5.04%
Argentinian	42	0.01%	0.53%
Bolivian	26	0.01%	0.33%
Chilean	14	0.00%	0.18%
Columbian	167	0.06%	2.10%
Ecuadorian	38	0.01%	0.48%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	53	0.02%	0.67%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.08%
Venezuelan	33	0.01%	0.42%
Other South American	21	0.01%	0.26%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,916	0.65%	24.15%
Spaniard	103	0.03%	1.30%
Spanish	459	0.16%	5.78%
Spanish American	33	0.01%	0.42%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,321	0.45%	16.65%

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

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