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)	380,590	98.69%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	5,057	1.31%	100.00%
Mexican	2,148	0.56%	42.48%
Puerto Rican	295	0.08%	5.83%
Cuban	277	0.07%	5.48%
Dominican	25	0.01%	0.49%
Central American	261	0.07%	5.16%
Costa Rican	14	0.00%	0.28%
Guatemalan	76	0.02%	1.50%
Honduran	65	0.02%	1.29%
Nicaraguan	25	0.01%	0.49%
Panamanian	41	0.01%	0.81%
Salvadorian	33	0.01%	0.65%
Other Central American	7	0.00%	0.14%
South American	217	0.06%	4.29%
Argentinian	12	0.00%	0.24%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.12%
Chilean	11	0.00%	0.22%
Columbian	71	0.02%	1.40%
Ecuadorian	14	0.00%	0.28%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	26	0.01%	0.51%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	68	0.02%	1.34%
Other South American	8	0.00%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,834	0.48%	36.27%
Spaniard	46	0.01%	0.91%
Spanish	312	0.08%	6.17%
Spanish American	20	0.01%	0.40%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,456	0.38%	28.79%

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

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