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)	240,475	92.46%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	19,602	7.54%	100.00%
Mexican	15,881	6.11%	81.02%
Puerto Rican	1,009	0.39%	5.15%
Cuban	283	0.11%	1.44%
Dominican	22	0.01%	0.11%
Central American	271	0.10%	1.38%
Costa Rican	16	0.01%	0.08%
Guatemalan	106	0.04%	0.54%
Honduran	34	0.01%	0.17%
Nicaraguan	13	0.00%	0.07%
Panamanian	13	0.00%	0.07%
Salvadorian	62	0.02%	0.32%
Other Central American	27	0.01%	0.14%
South American	378	0.15%	1.93%
Argentinian	27	0.01%	0.14%
Bolivian	13	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	20	0.01%	0.10%
Columbian	149	0.06%	0.76%
Ecuadorian	82	0.03%	0.42%
Paraguayan	2	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	62	0.02%	0.32%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	19	0.01%	0.10%
Other South American	4	0.00%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,758	0.68%	8.97%
Spaniard	39	0.01%	0.20%
Spanish	269	0.10%	1.37%
Spanish American	27	0.01%	0.14%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,423	0.55%	7.26%

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

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