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)	583,630	97.66%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	14,005	2.34%	100.00%
Mexican	3,046	0.51%	21.75%
Puerto Rican	6,304	1.05%	45.01%
Cuban	650	0.11%	4.64%
Dominican	179	0.03%	1.28%
Central American	652	0.11%	4.66%
Costa Rican	116	0.02%	0.83%
Guatemalan	248	0.04%	1.77%
Honduran	77	0.01%	0.55%
Nicaraguan	20	0.00%	0.14%
Panamanian	47	0.01%	0.34%
Salvadorian	127	0.02%	0.91%
Other Central American	17	0.00%	0.12%
South American	995	0.17%	7.10%
Argentinian	122	0.02%	0.87%
Bolivian	8	0.00%	0.06%
Chilean	32	0.01%	0.23%
Columbian	321	0.05%	2.29%
Ecuadorian	197	0.03%	1.41%
Paraguayan	11	0.00%	0.08%
Peruvian	174	0.03%	1.24%
Uruguayan	16	0.00%	0.11%
Venezuelan	41	0.01%	0.29%
Other South American	73	0.01%	0.52%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,179	0.36%	15.56%
Spaniard	96	0.02%	0.69%
Spanish	470	0.08%	3.36%
Spanish American	46	0.01%	0.33%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,567	0.26%	11.19%

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

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