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)	214,421	98.09%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	4,169	1.91%	100.00%
Mexican	910	0.42%	21.83%
Puerto Rican	1,428	0.65%	34.25%
Cuban	164	0.08%	3.93%
Dominican	82	0.04%	1.97%
Central American	306	0.14%	7.34%
Costa Rican	29	0.01%	0.70%
Guatemalan	65	0.03%	1.56%
Honduran	21	0.01%	0.50%
Nicaraguan	18	0.01%	0.43%
Panamanian	107	0.05%	2.57%
Salvadorian	56	0.03%	1.34%
Other Central American	10	0.00%	0.24%
South American	293	0.13%	7.03%
Argentinian	35	0.02%	0.84%
Bolivian	8	0.00%	0.19%
Chilean	29	0.01%	0.70%
Columbian	80	0.04%	1.92%
Ecuadorian	45	0.02%	1.08%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	65	0.03%	1.56%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.14%
Venezuelan	1	0.00%	0.02%
Other South American	24	0.01%	0.58%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	986	0.45%	23.65%
Spaniard	42	0.02%	1.01%
Spanish	191	0.09%	4.58%
Spanish American	13	0.01%	0.31%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	740	0.34%	17.75%

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

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