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)	166,491	91.08%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	16,300	8.92%	100.00%
Mexican	13,267	7.26%	81.39%
Puerto Rican	740	0.40%	4.54%
Cuban	54	0.03%	0.33%
Dominican	32	0.02%	0.20%
Central American	590	0.32%	3.62%
Costa Rican	13	0.01%	0.08%
Guatemalan	107	0.06%	0.66%
Honduran	226	0.12%	1.39%
Nicaraguan	16	0.01%	0.10%
Panamanian	11	0.01%	0.07%
Salvadorian	180	0.10%	1.10%
Other Central American	37	0.02%	0.23%
South American	158	0.09%	0.97%
Argentinian	7	0.00%	0.04%
Bolivian	23	0.01%	0.14%
Chilean	13	0.01%	0.08%
Columbian	42	0.02%	0.26%
Ecuadorian	20	0.01%	0.12%
Paraguayan	4	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	7	0.00%	0.04%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	38	0.02%	0.23%
Other South American	3	0.00%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,459	0.80%	8.95%
Spaniard	23	0.01%	0.14%
Spanish	112	0.06%	0.69%
Spanish American	25	0.01%	0.15%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,299	0.71%	7.97%

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

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