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)	212,799	99.02%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,112	0.98%	100.00%
Mexican	782	0.36%	37.03%
Puerto Rican	376	0.17%	17.80%
Cuban	108	0.05%	5.11%
Dominican	23	0.01%	1.09%
Central American	112	0.05%	5.30%
Costa Rican	5	0.00%	0.24%
Guatemalan	14	0.01%	0.66%
Honduran	31	0.01%	1.47%
Nicaraguan	5	0.00%	0.24%
Panamanian	9	0.00%	0.43%
Salvadorian	40	0.02%	1.89%
Other Central American	8	0.00%	0.38%
South American	129	0.06%	6.11%
Argentinian	14	0.01%	0.66%
Bolivian	6	0.00%	0.28%
Chilean	12	0.01%	0.57%
Columbian	44	0.02%	2.08%
Ecuadorian	12	0.01%	0.57%
Paraguayan	3	0.00%	0.14%
Peruvian	16	0.01%	0.76%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	11	0.01%	0.52%
Other South American	11	0.01%	0.52%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	582	0.27%	27.56%
Spaniard	16	0.01%	0.76%
Spanish	83	0.04%	3.93%
Spanish American	9	0.00%	0.43%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	474	0.22%	22.44%

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

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