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)	516,365	55.97%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	406,151	44.03%	100.00%
Mexican	349,109	37.84%	85.96%
Puerto Rican	2,103	0.23%	0.52%
Cuban	610	0.07%	0.15%
Dominican	44	0.00%	0.01%
Central American	4,049	0.44%	1.00%
Costa Rican	116	0.01%	0.03%
Guatemalan	502	0.05%	0.12%
Honduran	298	0.03%	0.07%
Nicaraguan	256	0.03%	0.06%
Panamanian	88	0.01%	0.02%
Salvadorian	2,454	0.27%	0.60%
Other Central American	335	0.04%	0.08%
South American	989	0.11%	0.24%
Argentinian	123	0.01%	0.03%
Bolivian	42	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	119	0.01%	0.03%
Columbian	232	0.03%	0.06%
Ecuadorian	83	0.01%	0.02%
Paraguayan	12	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	219	0.02%	0.05%
Uruguayan	8	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	61	0.01%	0.02%
Other South American	90	0.01%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	49,247	5.34%	12.13%
Spaniard	636	0.07%	0.16%
Spanish	3,970	0.43%	0.98%
Spanish American	187	0.02%	0.05%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	44,454	4.82%	10.95%

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

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