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)	561,060	96.95%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	17,676	3.05%	100.00%
Mexican	10,498	1.81%	59.39%
Puerto Rican	1,316	0.23%	7.45%
Cuban	486	0.08%	2.75%
Dominican	90	0.02%	0.51%
Central American	714	0.12%	4.04%
Costa Rican	132	0.02%	0.75%
Guatemalan	131	0.02%	0.74%
Honduran	137	0.02%	0.78%
Nicaraguan	66	0.01%	0.37%
Panamanian	92	0.02%	0.52%
Salvadorian	125	0.02%	0.71%
Other Central American	31	0.01%	0.18%
South American	1,047	0.18%	5.92%
Argentinian	128	0.02%	0.72%
Bolivian	31	0.01%	0.18%
Chilean	111	0.02%	0.63%
Columbian	327	0.06%	1.85%
Ecuadorian	73	0.01%	0.41%
Paraguayan	14	0.00%	0.08%
Peruvian	153	0.03%	0.87%
Uruguayan	21	0.00%	0.12%
Venezuelan	154	0.03%	0.87%
Other South American	35	0.01%	0.20%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,525	0.61%	19.94%
Spaniard	109	0.02%	0.62%
Spanish	626	0.11%	3.54%
Spanish American	39	0.01%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,751	0.48%	15.56%

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

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