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)	1,683,152	94.77%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	92,910	5.23%	100.00%
Mexican	70,966	4.00%	76.38%
Puerto Rican	2,891	0.16%	3.11%
Cuban	1,837	0.10%	1.98%
Dominican	338	0.02%	0.36%
Central American	2,959	0.17%	3.18%
Costa Rican	125	0.01%	0.13%
Guatemalan	719	0.04%	0.77%
Honduran	814	0.05%	0.88%
Nicaraguan	93	0.01%	0.10%
Panamanian	283	0.02%	0.30%
Salvadorian	751	0.04%	0.81%
Other Central American	174	0.01%	0.19%
South American	2,058	0.12%	2.22%
Argentinian	175	0.01%	0.19%
Bolivian	94	0.01%	0.10%
Chilean	128	0.01%	0.14%
Columbian	654	0.04%	0.70%
Ecuadorian	271	0.02%	0.29%
Paraguayan	36	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	276	0.02%	0.30%
Uruguayan	11	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	259	0.01%	0.28%
Other South American	154	0.01%	0.17%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	11,861	0.67%	12.77%
Spaniard	163	0.01%	0.18%
Spanish	1,613	0.09%	1.74%
Spanish American	162	0.01%	0.17%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	9,923	0.56%	10.68%

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

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