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)	22,975	56.70%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	17,548	43.30%	100.00%
Mexican	14,129	34.87%	80.52%
Puerto Rican	57	0.14%	0.32%
Cuban	41	0.10%	0.23%
Dominican	2	0.00%	0.01%
Central American	672	1.66%	3.83%
Costa Rican	1	0.00%	0.01%
Guatemalan	177	0.44%	1.01%
Honduran	24	0.06%	0.14%
Nicaraguan	5	0.01%	0.03%
Panamanian	3	0.01%	0.02%
Salvadorian	422	1.04%	2.40%
Other Central American	40	0.10%	0.23%
South American	37	0.09%	0.21%
Argentinian	4	0.01%	0.02%
Bolivian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	0	0.00%	0.00%
Columbian	3	0.01%	0.02%
Ecuadorian	14	0.03%	0.08%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	10	0.02%	0.06%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	5	0.01%	0.03%
Other South American	1	0.00%	0.01%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,610	6.44%	14.87%
Spaniard	11	0.03%	0.06%
Spanish	196	0.48%	1.12%
Spanish American	38	0.09%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,365	5.84%	13.48%

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

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