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)	436,892	95.81%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	19,130	4.19%	100.00%
Mexican	13,732	3.01%	71.78%
Puerto Rican	519	0.11%	2.71%
Cuban	154	0.03%	0.81%
Dominican	37	0.01%	0.19%
Central American	1,318	0.29%	6.89%
Costa Rican	45	0.01%	0.24%
Guatemalan	348	0.08%	1.82%
Honduran	123	0.03%	0.64%
Nicaraguan	64	0.01%	0.33%
Panamanian	41	0.01%	0.21%
Salvadorian	655	0.14%	3.42%
Other Central American	42	0.01%	0.22%
South American	488	0.11%	2.55%
Argentinian	31	0.01%	0.16%
Bolivian	16	0.00%	0.08%
Chilean	36	0.01%	0.19%
Columbian	89	0.02%	0.47%
Ecuadorian	203	0.04%	1.06%
Paraguayan	5	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	63	0.01%	0.33%
Uruguayan	4	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	24	0.01%	0.13%
Other South American	17	0.00%	0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,882	0.63%	15.07%
Spaniard	55	0.01%	0.29%
Spanish	393	0.09%	2.05%
Spanish American	32	0.01%	0.17%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,402	0.53%	12.56%

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

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