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)	93,594	89.73%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,718	10.27%	100.00%
Mexican	6,661	6.39%	62.15%
Puerto Rican	108	0.10%	1.01%
Cuban	45	0.04%	0.42%
Dominican	15	0.01%	0.14%
Central American	59	0.06%	0.55%
Costa Rican	2	0.00%	0.02%
Guatemalan	17	0.02%	0.16%
Honduran	11	0.01%	0.10%
Nicaraguan	2	0.00%	0.02%
Panamanian	17	0.02%	0.16%
Salvadorian	9	0.01%	0.08%
Other Central American	1	0.00%	0.01%
South American	51	0.05%	0.48%
Argentinian	5	0.00%	0.05%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.04%
Chilean	6	0.01%	0.06%
Columbian	13	0.01%	0.12%
Ecuadorian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	8	0.01%	0.07%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	11	0.01%	0.10%
Other South American	1	0.00%	0.01%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,779	3.62%	35.26%
Spaniard	16	0.02%	0.15%
Spanish	602	0.58%	5.62%
Spanish American	48	0.05%	0.45%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,113	2.98%	29.04%

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

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