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)	904,508	98.20%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	16,598	1.80%	100.00%
Mexican	11,427	1.24%	68.85%
Puerto Rican	899	0.10%	5.42%
Cuban	477	0.05%	2.87%
Dominican	41	0.00%	0.25%
Central American	637	0.07%	3.84%
Costa Rican	77	0.01%	0.46%
Guatemalan	141	0.02%	0.85%
Honduran	127	0.01%	0.77%
Nicaraguan	45	0.00%	0.27%
Panamanian	80	0.01%	0.48%
Salvadorian	144	0.02%	0.87%
Other Central American	23	0.00%	0.14%
South American	568	0.06%	3.42%
Argentinian	65	0.01%	0.39%
Bolivian	8	0.00%	0.05%
Chilean	46	0.00%	0.28%
Columbian	178	0.02%	1.07%
Ecuadorian	57	0.01%	0.34%
Paraguayan	13	0.00%	0.08%
Peruvian	98	0.01%	0.59%
Uruguayan	11	0.00%	0.07%
Venezuelan	66	0.01%	0.40%
Other South American	26	0.00%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,549	0.28%	15.36%
Spaniard	33	0.00%	0.20%
Spanish	342	0.04%	2.06%
Spanish American	25	0.00%	0.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,149	0.23%	12.95%

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

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