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)	1,189,299	95.03%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	62,210	4.97%	100.00%
Mexican	45,549	3.64%	73.22%
Puerto Rican	3,040	0.24%	4.89%
Cuban	1,145	0.09%	1.84%
Dominican	389	0.03%	0.63%
Central American	3,723	0.30%	5.98%
Costa Rican	194	0.02%	0.31%
Guatemalan	791	0.06%	1.27%
Honduran	538	0.04%	0.86%
Nicaraguan	190	0.02%	0.31%
Panamanian	192	0.02%	0.31%
Salvadorian	1,696	0.14%	2.73%
Other Central American	122	0.01%	0.20%
South American	1,577	0.13%	2.53%
Argentinian	161	0.01%	0.26%
Bolivian	20	0.00%	0.03%
Chilean	125	0.01%	0.20%
Columbian	598	0.05%	0.96%
Ecuadorian	172	0.01%	0.28%
Paraguayan	10	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	214	0.02%	0.34%
Uruguayan	17	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	208	0.02%	0.33%
Other South American	52	0.00%	0.08%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,787	0.54%	10.91%
Spaniard	163	0.01%	0.26%
Spanish	749	0.06%	1.20%
Spanish American	102	0.01%	0.16%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,773	0.46%	9.28%

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

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