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)	166,880	94.94%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	8,886	5.06%	100.00%
Mexican	4,392	2.50%	49.43%
Puerto Rican	504	0.29%	5.67%
Cuban	181	0.10%	2.04%
Dominican	32	0.02%	0.36%
Central American	152	0.09%	1.71%
Costa Rican	20	0.01%	0.23%
Guatemalan	35	0.02%	0.39%
Honduran	22	0.01%	0.25%
Nicaraguan	11	0.01%	0.12%
Panamanian	22	0.01%	0.25%
Salvadorian	30	0.02%	0.34%
Other Central American	12	0.01%	0.14%
South American	332	0.19%	3.74%
Argentinian	41	0.02%	0.46%
Bolivian	10	0.01%	0.11%
Chilean	34	0.02%	0.38%
Columbian	110	0.06%	1.24%
Ecuadorian	18	0.01%	0.20%
Paraguayan	5	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	52	0.03%	0.59%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.06%
Venezuelan	22	0.01%	0.25%
Other South American	35	0.02%	0.39%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,293	1.87%	37.06%
Spaniard	83	0.05%	0.93%
Spanish	999	0.57%	11.24%
Spanish American	84	0.05%	0.95%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,127	1.21%	23.94%

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

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