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)	538,118	99.12%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	4,781	0.88%	100.00%
Mexican	1,833	0.34%	38.34%
Puerto Rican	1,087	0.20%	22.74%
Cuban	173	0.03%	3.62%
Dominican	23	0.00%	0.48%
Central American	232	0.04%	4.85%
Costa Rican	20	0.00%	0.42%
Guatemalan	49	0.01%	1.02%
Honduran	61	0.01%	1.28%
Nicaraguan	16	0.00%	0.33%
Panamanian	40	0.01%	0.84%
Salvadorian	42	0.01%	0.88%
Other Central American	4	0.00%	0.08%
South American	344	0.06%	7.20%
Argentinian	51	0.01%	1.07%
Bolivian	12	0.00%	0.25%
Chilean	32	0.01%	0.67%
Columbian	79	0.01%	1.65%
Ecuadorian	30	0.01%	0.63%
Paraguayan	7	0.00%	0.15%
Peruvian	52	0.01%	1.09%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.10%
Venezuelan	61	0.01%	1.28%
Other South American	15	0.00%	0.31%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,089	0.20%	22.78%
Spaniard	40	0.01%	0.84%
Spanish	255	0.05%	5.33%
Spanish American	14	0.00%	0.29%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	780	0.14%	16.31%

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

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