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)	181,832	89.50%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	21,339	10.50%	100.00%
Mexican	17,134	8.43%	80.29%
Puerto Rican	391	0.19%	1.83%
Cuban	127	0.06%	0.60%
Dominican	10	0.00%	0.05%
Central American	317	0.16%	1.49%
Costa Rican	39	0.02%	0.18%
Guatemalan	49	0.02%	0.23%
Honduran	20	0.01%	0.09%
Nicaraguan	59	0.03%	0.28%
Panamanian	18	0.01%	0.08%
Salvadorian	108	0.05%	0.51%
Other Central American	24	0.01%	0.11%
South American	188	0.09%	0.88%
Argentinian	14	0.01%	0.07%
Bolivian	12	0.01%	0.06%
Chilean	25	0.01%	0.12%
Columbian	44	0.02%	0.21%
Ecuadorian	7	0.00%	0.03%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	42	0.02%	0.20%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	17	0.01%	0.08%
Other South American	25	0.01%	0.12%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,172	1.56%	14.86%
Spaniard	96	0.05%	0.45%
Spanish	783	0.39%	3.67%
Spanish American	54	0.03%	0.25%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,239	1.10%	10.49%

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

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