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)	63,471	70.60%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	26,437	29.40%	100.00%
Mexican	7,129	7.93%	26.97%
Puerto Rican	369	0.41%	1.40%
Cuban	80	0.09%	0.30%
Dominican	20	0.02%	0.08%
Central American	127	0.14%	0.48%
Costa Rican	7	0.01%	0.03%
Guatemalan	26	0.03%	0.10%
Honduran	15	0.02%	0.06%
Nicaraguan	16	0.02%	0.06%
Panamanian	18	0.02%	0.07%
Salvadorian	29	0.03%	0.11%
Other Central American	16	0.02%	0.06%
South American	123	0.14%	0.47%
Argentinian	15	0.02%	0.06%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.02%
Chilean	17	0.02%	0.06%
Columbian	39	0.04%	0.15%
Ecuadorian	13	0.01%	0.05%
Paraguayan	2	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	19	0.02%	0.07%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	3	0.00%	0.01%
Other South American	10	0.01%	0.04%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	18,589	20.68%	70.31%
Spaniard	111	0.12%	0.42%
Spanish	3,838	4.27%	14.52%
Spanish American	610	0.68%	2.31%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	14,030	15.60%	53.07%

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

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