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)	426,527	95.26%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	21,201	4.74%	100.00%
Mexican	14,278	3.19%	67.35%
Puerto Rican	925	0.21%	4.36%
Cuban	1,149	0.26%	5.42%
Dominican	51	0.01%	0.24%
Central American	274	0.06%	1.29%
Costa Rican	31	0.01%	0.15%
Guatemalan	89	0.02%	0.42%
Honduran	38	0.01%	0.18%
Nicaraguan	22	0.00%	0.10%
Panamanian	61	0.01%	0.29%
Salvadorian	21	0.00%	0.10%
Other Central American	12	0.00%	0.06%
South American	465	0.10%	2.19%
Argentinian	63	0.01%	0.30%
Bolivian	20	0.00%	0.09%
Chilean	27	0.01%	0.13%
Columbian	135	0.03%	0.64%
Ecuadorian	46	0.01%	0.22%
Paraguayan	12	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	50	0.01%	0.24%
Uruguayan	4	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	71	0.02%	0.33%
Other South American	37	0.01%	0.17%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,059	0.91%	19.15%
Spaniard	81	0.02%	0.38%
Spanish	555	0.12%	2.62%
Spanish American	35	0.01%	0.17%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,388	0.76%	15.98%

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

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