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)	538,370	86.61%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	83,232	13.39%	100.00%
Mexican	4,317	0.69%	5.19%
Puerto Rican	22,987	3.70%	27.62%
Cuban	808	0.13%	0.97%
Dominican	17,357	2.79%	20.85%
Central American	10,901	1.75%	13.10%
Costa Rican	88	0.01%	0.11%
Guatemalan	8,752	1.41%	10.52%
Honduran	448	0.07%	0.54%
Nicaraguan	91	0.01%	0.11%
Panamanian	155	0.02%	0.19%
Salvadorian	1,146	0.18%	1.38%
Other Central American	221	0.04%	0.27%
South American	7,986	1.28%	9.59%
Argentinian	174	0.03%	0.21%
Bolivian	907	0.15%	1.09%
Chilean	78	0.01%	0.09%
Columbian	5,462	0.88%	6.56%
Ecuadorian	461	0.07%	0.55%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	425	0.07%	0.51%
Uruguayan	20	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	309	0.05%	0.37%
Other South American	144	0.02%	0.17%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	18,876	3.04%	22.68%
Spaniard	128	0.02%	0.15%
Spanish	2,132	0.34%	2.56%
Spanish American	243	0.04%	0.29%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	16,373	2.63%	19.67%

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

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