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)	164,263	98.31%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,827	1.69%	100.00%
Mexican	674	0.40%	23.84%
Puerto Rican	748	0.45%	26.46%
Cuban	118	0.07%	4.17%
Dominican	270	0.16%	9.55%
Central American	165	0.10%	5.84%
Costa Rican	8	0.00%	0.28%
Guatemalan	89	0.05%	3.15%
Honduran	25	0.01%	0.88%
Nicaraguan	8	0.00%	0.28%
Panamanian	14	0.01%	0.50%
Salvadorian	18	0.01%	0.64%
Other Central American	3	0.00%	0.11%
South American	260	0.16%	9.20%
Argentinian	26	0.02%	0.92%
Bolivian	16	0.01%	0.57%
Chilean	9	0.01%	0.32%
Columbian	89	0.05%	3.15%
Ecuadorian	28	0.02%	0.99%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	40	0.02%	1.41%
Uruguayan	23	0.01%	0.81%
Venezuelan	15	0.01%	0.53%
Other South American	14	0.01%	0.50%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	592	0.35%	20.94%
Spaniard	11	0.01%	0.39%
Spanish	105	0.06%	3.71%
Spanish American	22	0.01%	0.78%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	454	0.27%	16.06%

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

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