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)	696,278	94.69%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	39,065	5.31%	100.00%
Mexican	2,285	0.31%	5.85%
Puerto Rican	27,501	3.74%	70.40%
Cuban	1,893	0.26%	4.85%
Dominican	1,122	0.15%	2.87%
Central American	670	0.09%	1.72%
Costa Rican	74	0.01%	0.19%
Guatemalan	121	0.02%	0.31%
Honduran	71	0.01%	0.18%
Nicaraguan	107	0.01%	0.27%
Panamanian	134	0.02%	0.34%
Salvadorian	136	0.02%	0.35%
Other Central American	27	0.00%	0.07%
South American	1,236	0.17%	3.16%
Argentinian	126	0.02%	0.32%
Bolivian	46	0.01%	0.12%
Chilean	203	0.03%	0.52%
Columbian	376	0.05%	0.96%
Ecuadorian	87	0.01%	0.22%
Paraguayan	35	0.00%	0.09%
Peruvian	180	0.02%	0.46%
Uruguayan	15	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	97	0.01%	0.25%
Other South American	71	0.01%	0.18%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,358	0.59%	11.16%
Spaniard	98	0.01%	0.25%
Spanish	648	0.09%	1.66%
Spanish American	34	0.00%	0.09%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,578	0.49%	9.16%

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

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