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)	368,675	96.81%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	12,166	3.19%	100.00%
Mexican	2,901	0.76%	23.85%
Puerto Rican	3,839	1.01%	31.56%
Cuban	282	0.07%	2.32%
Dominican	1,071	0.28%	8.80%
Central American	458	0.12%	3.76%
Costa Rican	22	0.01%	0.18%
Guatemalan	60	0.02%	0.49%
Honduran	96	0.03%	0.79%
Nicaraguan	12	0.00%	0.10%
Panamanian	62	0.02%	0.51%
Salvadorian	177	0.05%	1.45%
Other Central American	29	0.01%	0.24%
South American	1,179	0.31%	9.69%
Argentinian	35	0.01%	0.29%
Bolivian	19	0.00%	0.16%
Chilean	19	0.00%	0.16%
Columbian	661	0.17%	5.43%
Ecuadorian	114	0.03%	0.94%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	73	0.02%	0.60%
Uruguayan	130	0.03%	1.07%
Venezuelan	69	0.02%	0.57%
Other South American	58	0.02%	0.48%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,436	0.64%	20.02%
Spaniard	70	0.02%	0.58%
Spanish	409	0.11%	3.36%
Spanish American	33	0.01%	0.27%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,924	0.51%	15.81%

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

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