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)	287,437	95.52%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	13,467	4.48%	100.00%
Mexican	9,080	3.02%	67.42%
Puerto Rican	405	0.13%	3.01%
Cuban	136	0.05%	1.01%
Dominican	9	0.00%	0.07%
Central American	248	0.08%	1.84%
Costa Rican	26	0.01%	0.19%
Guatemalan	67	0.02%	0.50%
Honduran	28	0.01%	0.21%
Nicaraguan	15	0.00%	0.11%
Panamanian	52	0.02%	0.39%
Salvadorian	52	0.02%	0.39%
Other Central American	8	0.00%	0.06%
South American	341	0.11%	2.53%
Argentinian	33	0.01%	0.25%
Bolivian	14	0.00%	0.10%
Chilean	40	0.01%	0.30%
Columbian	88	0.03%	0.65%
Ecuadorian	36	0.01%	0.27%
Paraguayan	5	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	60	0.02%	0.45%
Uruguayan	9	0.00%	0.07%
Venezuelan	33	0.01%	0.25%
Other South American	23	0.01%	0.17%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,248	1.08%	24.12%
Spaniard	108	0.04%	0.80%
Spanish	687	0.23%	5.10%
Spanish American	40	0.01%	0.30%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,413	0.80%	17.92%

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

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