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)	199,620	95.96%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	8,396	4.04%	100.00%
Mexican	5,270	2.53%	62.77%
Puerto Rican	524	0.25%	6.24%
Cuban	155	0.07%	1.85%
Dominican	12	0.01%	0.14%
Central American	323	0.16%	3.85%
Costa Rican	28	0.01%	0.33%
Guatemalan	138	0.07%	1.64%
Honduran	33	0.02%	0.39%
Nicaraguan	12	0.01%	0.14%
Panamanian	64	0.03%	0.76%
Salvadorian	39	0.02%	0.46%
Other Central American	9	0.00%	0.11%
South American	442	0.21%	5.26%
Argentinian	46	0.02%	0.55%
Bolivian	18	0.01%	0.21%
Chilean	14	0.01%	0.17%
Columbian	158	0.08%	1.88%
Ecuadorian	20	0.01%	0.24%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.07%
Peruvian	54	0.03%	0.64%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	111	0.05%	1.32%
Other South American	13	0.01%	0.15%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,670	0.80%	19.89%
Spaniard	62	0.03%	0.74%
Spanish	366	0.18%	4.36%
Spanish American	21	0.01%	0.25%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,221	0.59%	14.54%

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

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