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)	172,509	94.36%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,312	5.64%	100.00%
Mexican	7,853	4.30%	76.15%
Puerto Rican	539	0.29%	5.23%
Cuban	113	0.06%	1.10%
Dominican	11	0.01%	0.11%
Central American	318	0.17%	3.08%
Costa Rican	24	0.01%	0.23%
Guatemalan	71	0.04%	0.69%
Honduran	26	0.01%	0.25%
Nicaraguan	39	0.02%	0.38%
Panamanian	50	0.03%	0.48%
Salvadorian	87	0.05%	0.84%
Other Central American	21	0.01%	0.20%
South American	334	0.18%	3.24%
Argentinian	75	0.04%	0.73%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.06%
Chilean	14	0.01%	0.14%
Columbian	103	0.06%	1.00%
Ecuadorian	28	0.02%	0.27%
Paraguayan	2	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	45	0.02%	0.44%
Uruguayan	10	0.01%	0.10%
Venezuelan	31	0.02%	0.30%
Other South American	20	0.01%	0.19%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,144	0.63%	11.09%
Spaniard	26	0.01%	0.25%
Spanish	112	0.06%	1.09%
Spanish American	18	0.01%	0.17%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	988	0.54%	9.58%

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

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