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)	380,357	87.85%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	52,619	12.15%	100.00%
Mexican	38,456	8.88%	73.08%
Puerto Rican	1,519	0.35%	2.89%
Cuban	732	0.17%	1.39%
Dominican	98	0.02%	0.19%
Central American	1,799	0.42%	3.42%
Costa Rican	74	0.02%	0.14%
Guatemalan	417	0.10%	0.79%
Honduran	181	0.04%	0.34%
Nicaraguan	120	0.03%	0.23%
Panamanian	133	0.03%	0.25%
Salvadorian	766	0.18%	1.46%
Other Central American	108	0.02%	0.21%
South American	1,277	0.29%	2.43%
Argentinian	107	0.02%	0.20%
Bolivian	35	0.01%	0.07%
Chilean	95	0.02%	0.18%
Columbian	464	0.11%	0.88%
Ecuadorian	124	0.03%	0.24%
Paraguayan	11	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	253	0.06%	0.48%
Uruguayan	11	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	129	0.03%	0.25%
Other South American	48	0.01%	0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	8,738	2.02%	16.61%
Spaniard	133	0.03%	0.25%
Spanish	1,055	0.24%	2.00%
Spanish American	65	0.02%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	7,485	1.73%	14.22%

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

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