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)	68,594	55.72%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	54,515	44.28%	100.00%
Mexican	46,989	38.17%	86.19%
Puerto Rican	392	0.32%	0.72%
Cuban	169	0.14%	0.31%
Dominican	0	0.00%	0.00%
Central American	367	0.30%	0.67%
Costa Rican	11	0.01%	0.02%
Guatemalan	86	0.07%	0.16%
Honduran	42	0.03%	0.08%
Nicaraguan	25	0.02%	0.05%
Panamanian	8	0.01%	0.01%
Salvadorian	159	0.13%	0.29%
Other Central American	36	0.03%	0.07%
South American	148	0.12%	0.27%
Argentinian	19	0.02%	0.03%
Bolivian	13	0.01%	0.02%
Chilean	20	0.02%	0.04%
Columbian	31	0.03%	0.06%
Ecuadorian	4	0.00%	0.01%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	58	0.05%	0.11%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Other South American	2	0.00%	0.00%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,450	5.24%	11.83%
Spaniard	91	0.07%	0.17%
Spanish	534	0.43%	0.98%
Spanish American	21	0.02%	0.04%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,804	4.71%	10.65%

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

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