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)	147,039	96.58%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	5,212	3.42%	100.00%
Mexican	463	0.30%	8.88%
Puerto Rican	2,863	1.88%	54.93%
Cuban	181	0.12%	3.47%
Dominican	146	0.10%	2.80%
Central American	289	0.19%	5.54%
Costa Rican	20	0.01%	0.38%
Guatemalan	51	0.03%	0.98%
Honduran	22	0.01%	0.42%
Nicaraguan	6	0.00%	0.12%
Panamanian	32	0.02%	0.61%
Salvadorian	117	0.08%	2.24%
Other Central American	41	0.03%	0.79%
South American	433	0.28%	8.31%
Argentinian	64	0.04%	1.23%
Bolivian	13	0.01%	0.25%
Chilean	47	0.03%	0.90%
Columbian	166	0.11%	3.18%
Ecuadorian	37	0.02%	0.71%
Paraguayan	2	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	54	0.04%	1.04%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.12%
Venezuelan	19	0.01%	0.36%
Other South American	25	0.02%	0.48%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	837	0.55%	16.06%
Spaniard	55	0.04%	1.06%
Spanish	165	0.11%	3.17%
Spanish American	8	0.01%	0.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	609	0.40%	11.68%

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

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