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)	245,484	94.31%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	14,799	5.69%	100.00%
Mexican	7,246	2.78%	48.96%
Puerto Rican	1,652	0.63%	11.16%
Cuban	343	0.13%	2.32%
Dominican	792	0.30%	5.35%
Central American	618	0.24%	4.18%
Costa Rican	58	0.02%	0.39%
Guatemalan	122	0.05%	0.82%
Honduran	87	0.03%	0.59%
Nicaraguan	31	0.01%	0.21%
Panamanian	120	0.05%	0.81%
Salvadorian	179	0.07%	1.21%
Other Central American	21	0.01%	0.14%
South American	761	0.29%	5.14%
Argentinian	43	0.02%	0.29%
Bolivian	17	0.01%	0.11%
Chilean	72	0.03%	0.49%
Columbian	287	0.11%	1.94%
Ecuadorian	39	0.01%	0.26%
Paraguayan	12	0.00%	0.08%
Peruvian	216	0.08%	1.46%
Uruguayan	9	0.00%	0.06%
Venezuelan	34	0.01%	0.23%
Other South American	32	0.01%	0.22%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,387	1.30%	22.89%
Spaniard	83	0.03%	0.56%
Spanish	778	0.30%	5.26%
Spanish American	60	0.02%	0.41%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,466	0.95%	16.66%

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

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