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)	116,649	97.74%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,692	2.26%	100.00%
Mexican	1,070	0.90%	39.75%
Puerto Rican	614	0.51%	22.81%
Cuban	177	0.15%	6.58%
Dominican	33	0.03%	1.23%
Central American	187	0.16%	6.95%
Costa Rican	10	0.01%	0.37%
Guatemalan	23	0.02%	0.85%
Honduran	17	0.01%	0.63%
Nicaraguan	12	0.01%	0.45%
Panamanian	87	0.07%	3.23%
Salvadorian	35	0.03%	1.30%
Other Central American	3	0.00%	0.11%
South American	163	0.14%	6.05%
Argentinian	12	0.01%	0.45%
Bolivian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	15	0.01%	0.56%
Columbian	64	0.05%	2.38%
Ecuadorian	17	0.01%	0.63%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	31	0.03%	1.15%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.07%
Venezuelan	9	0.01%	0.33%
Other South American	12	0.01%	0.45%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	448	0.38%	16.64%
Spaniard	18	0.02%	0.67%
Spanish	84	0.07%	3.12%
Spanish American	10	0.01%	0.37%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	336	0.28%	12.48%

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

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