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)	117,225	92.50%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	9,506	7.50%	100.00%
Mexican	3,790	2.99%	39.87%
Puerto Rican	1,385	1.09%	14.57%
Cuban	578	0.46%	6.08%
Dominican	55	0.04%	0.58%
Central American	1,904	1.50%	20.03%
Costa Rican	26	0.02%	0.27%
Guatemalan	1,591	1.26%	16.74%
Honduran	125	0.10%	1.31%
Nicaraguan	22	0.02%	0.23%
Panamanian	14	0.01%	0.15%
Salvadorian	70	0.06%	0.74%
Other Central American	56	0.04%	0.59%
South American	368	0.29%	3.87%
Argentinian	30	0.02%	0.32%
Bolivian	11	0.01%	0.12%
Chilean	13	0.01%	0.14%
Columbian	143	0.11%	1.50%
Ecuadorian	39	0.03%	0.41%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	45	0.04%	0.47%
Uruguayan	7	0.01%	0.07%
Venezuelan	45	0.04%	0.47%
Other South American	29	0.02%	0.31%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,426	1.13%	15.00%
Spaniard	21	0.02%	0.22%
Spanish	136	0.11%	1.43%
Spanish American	28	0.02%	0.29%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,241	0.98%	13.05%

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

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