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)	173,841	92.06%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	14,990	7.94%	100.00%
Mexican	11,495	6.09%	76.68%
Puerto Rican	981	0.52%	6.54%
Cuban	95	0.05%	0.63%
Dominican	12	0.01%	0.08%
Central American	73	0.04%	0.49%
Costa Rican	11	0.01%	0.07%
Guatemalan	22	0.01%	0.15%
Honduran	16	0.01%	0.11%
Nicaraguan	5	0.00%	0.03%
Panamanian	3	0.00%	0.02%
Salvadorian	15	0.01%	0.10%
Other Central American	1	0.00%	0.01%
South American	101	0.05%	0.67%
Argentinian	18	0.01%	0.12%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	10	0.01%	0.07%
Columbian	30	0.02%	0.20%
Ecuadorian	4	0.00%	0.03%
Paraguayan	2	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	22	0.01%	0.15%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	13	0.01%	0.09%
Other South American	0	0.00%	0.00%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,233	1.18%	14.90%
Spaniard	14	0.01%	0.09%
Spanish	255	0.14%	1.70%
Spanish American	24	0.01%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,940	1.03%	12.94%

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

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