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)	447,771	56.01%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	351,636	43.99%	100.00%
Mexican	302,120	37.79%	85.92%
Puerto Rican	1,711	0.21%	0.49%
Cuban	441	0.06%	0.13%
Dominican	44	0.01%	0.01%
Central American	3,682	0.46%	1.05%
Costa Rican	105	0.01%	0.03%
Guatemalan	416	0.05%	0.12%
Honduran	256	0.03%	0.07%
Nicaraguan	231	0.03%	0.07%
Panamanian	80	0.01%	0.02%
Salvadorian	2,295	0.29%	0.65%
Other Central American	299	0.04%	0.09%
South American	841	0.11%	0.24%
Argentinian	104	0.01%	0.03%
Bolivian	29	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	99	0.01%	0.03%
Columbian	201	0.03%	0.06%
Ecuadorian	79	0.01%	0.02%
Paraguayan	12	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	161	0.02%	0.05%
Uruguayan	8	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	60	0.01%	0.02%
Other South American	88	0.01%	0.03%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	42,797	5.35%	12.17%
Spaniard	545	0.07%	0.15%
Spanish	3,436	0.43%	0.98%
Spanish American	166	0.02%	0.05%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	38,650	4.83%	10.99%

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

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