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)	104,227	82.36%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	22,328	17.64%	100.00%
Mexican	15,548	12.29%	69.63%
Puerto Rican	428	0.34%	1.92%
Cuban	44	0.03%	0.20%
Dominican	26	0.02%	0.12%
Central American	177	0.14%	0.79%
Costa Rican	8	0.01%	0.04%
Guatemalan	21	0.02%	0.09%
Honduran	14	0.01%	0.06%
Nicaraguan	54	0.04%	0.24%
Panamanian	47	0.04%	0.21%
Salvadorian	25	0.02%	0.11%
Other Central American	8	0.01%	0.04%
South American	84	0.07%	0.38%
Argentinian	9	0.01%	0.04%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	1	0.00%	0.00%
Columbian	28	0.02%	0.13%
Ecuadorian	5	0.00%	0.02%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	23	0.02%	0.10%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	5	0.00%	0.02%
Other South American	5	0.00%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,021	4.76%	26.97%
Spaniard	15	0.01%	0.07%
Spanish	414	0.33%	1.85%
Spanish American	12	0.01%	0.05%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,580	4.41%	24.99%

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

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