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)	175,219	80.43%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	42,639	19.57%	100.00%
Mexican	30,059	13.80%	70.50%
Puerto Rican	305	0.14%	0.72%
Cuban	147	0.07%	0.34%
Dominican	15	0.01%	0.04%
Central American	232	0.11%	0.54%
Costa Rican	5	0.00%	0.01%
Guatemalan	50	0.02%	0.12%
Honduran	67	0.03%	0.16%
Nicaraguan	12	0.01%	0.03%
Panamanian	28	0.01%	0.07%
Salvadorian	66	0.03%	0.15%
Other Central American	4	0.00%	0.01%
South American	101	0.05%	0.24%
Argentinian	5	0.00%	0.01%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	22	0.01%	0.05%
Columbian	24	0.01%	0.06%
Ecuadorian	6	0.00%	0.01%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	16	0.01%	0.04%
Uruguayan	3	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	18	0.01%	0.04%
Other South American	2	0.00%	0.00%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	11,780	5.41%	27.63%
Spaniard	43	0.02%	0.10%
Spanish	1,310	0.60%	3.07%
Spanish American	139	0.06%	0.33%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	10,288	4.72%	24.13%

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

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