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)	184,646	97.00%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	5,719	3.00%	100.00%
Mexican	3,634	1.91%	63.54%
Puerto Rican	389	0.20%	6.80%
Cuban	136	0.07%	2.38%
Dominican	44	0.02%	0.77%
Central American	350	0.18%	6.12%
Costa Rican	77	0.04%	1.35%
Guatemalan	49	0.03%	0.86%
Honduran	114	0.06%	1.99%
Nicaraguan	43	0.02%	0.75%
Panamanian	25	0.01%	0.44%
Salvadorian	32	0.02%	0.56%
Other Central American	10	0.01%	0.17%
South American	444	0.23%	7.76%
Argentinian	6	0.00%	0.10%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.03%
Chilean	32	0.02%	0.56%
Columbian	322	0.17%	5.63%
Ecuadorian	18	0.01%	0.31%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	38	0.02%	0.66%
Uruguayan	8	0.00%	0.14%
Venezuelan	11	0.01%	0.19%
Other South American	7	0.00%	0.12%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	722	0.38%	12.62%
Spaniard	9	0.00%	0.16%
Spanish	65	0.03%	1.14%
Spanish American	18	0.01%	0.31%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	630	0.33%	11.02%

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

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