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)	822,795	91.00%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	81,366	9.00%	100.00%
Mexican	63,135	6.98%	77.59%
Puerto Rican	4,752	0.53%	5.84%
Cuban	1,834	0.20%	2.25%
Dominican	140	0.02%	0.17%
Central American	1,919	0.21%	2.36%
Costa Rican	101	0.01%	0.12%
Guatemalan	1,149	0.13%	1.41%
Honduran	185	0.02%	0.23%
Nicaraguan	64	0.01%	0.08%
Panamanian	86	0.01%	0.11%
Salvadorian	260	0.03%	0.32%
Other Central American	74	0.01%	0.09%
South American	2,807	0.31%	3.45%
Argentinian	249	0.03%	0.31%
Bolivian	148	0.02%	0.18%
Chilean	209	0.02%	0.26%
Columbian	934	0.10%	1.15%
Ecuadorian	445	0.05%	0.55%
Paraguayan	36	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	419	0.05%	0.51%
Uruguayan	14	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	211	0.02%	0.26%
Other South American	142	0.02%	0.17%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,779	0.75%	8.33%
Spaniard	167	0.02%	0.21%
Spanish	895	0.10%	1.10%
Spanish American	69	0.01%	0.08%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,648	0.62%	6.94%

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

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