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)	857,758	91.23%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	82,406	8.77%	100.00%
Mexican	49,210	5.23%	59.72%
Puerto Rican	22,074	2.35%	26.79%
Cuban	867	0.09%	1.05%
Dominican	345	0.04%	0.42%
Central American	1,474	0.16%	1.79%
Costa Rican	195	0.02%	0.24%
Guatemalan	240	0.03%	0.29%
Honduran	183	0.02%	0.22%
Nicaraguan	365	0.04%	0.44%
Panamanian	117	0.01%	0.14%
Salvadorian	310	0.03%	0.38%
Other Central American	64	0.01%	0.08%
South American	1,099	0.12%	1.33%
Argentinian	82	0.01%	0.10%
Bolivian	37	0.00%	0.04%
Chilean	135	0.01%	0.16%
Columbian	372	0.04%	0.45%
Ecuadorian	78	0.01%	0.09%
Paraguayan	25	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	197	0.02%	0.24%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	109	0.01%	0.13%
Other South American	58	0.01%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	7,337	0.78%	8.90%
Spaniard	131	0.01%	0.16%
Spanish	645	0.07%	0.78%
Spanish American	48	0.01%	0.06%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,513	0.69%	7.90%

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

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