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)	884,114	98.00%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	18,081	2.00%	100.00%
Mexican	11,735	1.30%	64.90%
Puerto Rican	931	0.10%	5.15%
Cuban	285	0.03%	1.58%
Dominican	46	0.01%	0.25%
Central American	235	0.03%	1.30%
Costa Rican	30	0.00%	0.17%
Guatemalan	32	0.00%	0.18%
Honduran	27	0.00%	0.15%
Nicaraguan	39	0.00%	0.22%
Panamanian	62	0.01%	0.34%
Salvadorian	34	0.00%	0.19%
Other Central American	11	0.00%	0.06%
South American	308	0.03%	1.70%
Argentinian	52	0.01%	0.29%
Bolivian	9	0.00%	0.05%
Chilean	31	0.00%	0.17%
Columbian	67	0.01%	0.37%
Ecuadorian	21	0.00%	0.12%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	71	0.01%	0.39%
Uruguayan	4	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	34	0.00%	0.19%
Other South American	13	0.00%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,541	0.50%	25.11%
Spaniard	136	0.02%	0.75%
Spanish	1,263	0.14%	6.99%
Spanish American	77	0.01%	0.43%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,065	0.34%	16.95%

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

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