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)	1,392,774	81.80%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	309,851	18.20%	100.00%
Mexican	247,079	14.51%	79.74%
Puerto Rican	7,370	0.43%	2.38%
Cuban	1,813	0.11%	0.59%
Dominican	337	0.02%	0.11%
Central American	4,587	0.27%	1.48%
Costa Rican	266	0.02%	0.09%
Guatemalan	782	0.05%	0.25%
Honduran	714	0.04%	0.23%
Nicaraguan	276	0.02%	0.09%
Panamanian	447	0.03%	0.14%
Salvadorian	1,900	0.11%	0.61%
Other Central American	202	0.01%	0.07%
South American	2,965	0.17%	0.96%
Argentinian	236	0.01%	0.08%
Bolivian	86	0.01%	0.03%
Chilean	192	0.01%	0.06%
Columbian	1,154	0.07%	0.37%
Ecuadorian	207	0.01%	0.07%
Paraguayan	20	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	481	0.03%	0.16%
Uruguayan	47	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	393	0.02%	0.13%
Other South American	149	0.01%	0.05%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	45,700	2.68%	14.75%
Spaniard	488	0.03%	0.16%
Spanish	3,558	0.21%	1.15%
Spanish American	221	0.01%	0.07%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	41,433	2.43%	13.37%

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

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