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)	139,459	92.75%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,896	7.25%	100.00%
Mexican	4,326	2.88%	39.70%
Puerto Rican	3,036	2.02%	27.86%
Cuban	316	0.21%	2.90%
Dominican	321	0.21%	2.95%
Central American	657	0.44%	6.03%
Costa Rican	53	0.04%	0.49%
Guatemalan	67	0.04%	0.61%
Honduran	94	0.06%	0.86%
Nicaraguan	79	0.05%	0.73%
Panamanian	221	0.15%	2.03%
Salvadorian	132	0.09%	1.21%
Other Central American	11	0.01%	0.10%
South American	523	0.35%	4.80%
Argentinian	29	0.02%	0.27%
Bolivian	37	0.02%	0.34%
Chilean	33	0.02%	0.30%
Columbian	183	0.12%	1.68%
Ecuadorian	100	0.07%	0.92%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	92	0.06%	0.84%
Uruguayan	8	0.01%	0.07%
Venezuelan	25	0.02%	0.23%
Other South American	16	0.01%	0.15%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,717	1.14%	15.76%
Spaniard	32	0.02%	0.29%
Spanish	277	0.18%	2.54%
Spanish American	10	0.01%	0.09%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,398	0.93%	12.83%

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

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