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)	827,164	96.13%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	33,290	3.87%	100.00%
Mexican	22,801	2.65%	68.49%
Puerto Rican	2,120	0.25%	6.37%
Cuban	504	0.06%	1.51%
Dominican	276	0.03%	0.83%
Central American	1,936	0.22%	5.82%
Costa Rican	59	0.01%	0.18%
Guatemalan	301	0.03%	0.90%
Honduran	548	0.06%	1.65%
Nicaraguan	263	0.03%	0.79%
Panamanian	160	0.02%	0.48%
Salvadorian	525	0.06%	1.58%
Other Central American	80	0.01%	0.24%
South American	856	0.10%	2.57%
Argentinian	59	0.01%	0.18%
Bolivian	13	0.00%	0.04%
Chilean	37	0.00%	0.11%
Columbian	249	0.03%	0.75%
Ecuadorian	65	0.01%	0.20%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	195	0.02%	0.59%
Uruguayan	9	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	186	0.02%	0.56%
Other South American	37	0.00%	0.11%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,797	0.56%	14.41%
Spaniard	86	0.01%	0.26%
Spanish	537	0.06%	1.61%
Spanish American	70	0.01%	0.21%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,104	0.48%	12.33%

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

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