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)	98,686	96.34%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,751	3.66%	100.00%
Mexican	377	0.37%	10.05%
Puerto Rican	1,270	1.24%	33.86%
Cuban	283	0.28%	7.54%
Dominican	67	0.07%	1.79%
Central American	341	0.33%	9.09%
Costa Rican	181	0.18%	4.83%
Guatemalan	65	0.06%	1.73%
Honduran	25	0.02%	0.67%
Nicaraguan	6	0.01%	0.16%
Panamanian	8	0.01%	0.21%
Salvadorian	24	0.02%	0.64%
Other Central American	32	0.03%	0.85%
South American	681	0.66%	18.16%
Argentinian	31	0.03%	0.83%
Bolivian	7	0.01%	0.19%
Chilean	52	0.05%	1.39%
Columbian	258	0.25%	6.88%
Ecuadorian	145	0.14%	3.87%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	118	0.12%	3.15%
Uruguayan	20	0.02%	0.53%
Venezuelan	22	0.02%	0.59%
Other South American	27	0.03%	0.72%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	732	0.71%	19.51%
Spaniard	66	0.06%	1.76%
Spanish	164	0.16%	4.37%
Spanish American	13	0.01%	0.35%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	489	0.48%	13.04%

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

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