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)	390,178	87.93%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	53,550	12.07%	100.00%
Mexican	7,798	1.76%	14.56%
Puerto Rican	28,528	6.43%	53.27%
Cuban	1,392	0.31%	2.60%
Dominican	1,867	0.42%	3.49%
Central American	1,964	0.44%	3.67%
Costa Rican	217	0.05%	0.41%
Guatemalan	247	0.06%	0.46%
Honduran	811	0.18%	1.51%
Nicaraguan	78	0.02%	0.15%
Panamanian	325	0.07%	0.61%
Salvadorian	189	0.04%	0.35%
Other Central American	97	0.02%	0.18%
South American	4,252	0.96%	7.94%
Argentinian	343	0.08%	0.64%
Bolivian	108	0.02%	0.20%
Chilean	213	0.05%	0.40%
Columbian	1,469	0.33%	2.74%
Ecuadorian	1,159	0.26%	2.16%
Paraguayan	11	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	597	0.13%	1.11%
Uruguayan	33	0.01%	0.06%
Venezuelan	90	0.02%	0.17%
Other South American	229	0.05%	0.43%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	7,749	1.75%	14.47%
Spaniard	469	0.11%	0.88%
Spanish	1,216	0.27%	2.27%
Spanish American	109	0.02%	0.20%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,955	1.34%	11.12%

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

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