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)	320,771	90.39%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	34,107	9.61%	100.00%
Mexican	5,527	1.56%	16.20%
Puerto Rican	16,640	4.69%	48.79%
Cuban	724	0.20%	2.12%
Dominican	2,114	0.60%	6.20%
Central American	1,792	0.50%	5.25%
Costa Rican	51	0.01%	0.15%
Guatemalan	122	0.03%	0.36%
Honduran	801	0.23%	2.35%
Nicaraguan	134	0.04%	0.39%
Panamanian	111	0.03%	0.33%
Salvadorian	477	0.13%	1.40%
Other Central American	96	0.03%	0.28%
South American	2,167	0.61%	6.35%
Argentinian	97	0.03%	0.28%
Bolivian	7	0.00%	0.02%
Chilean	38	0.01%	0.11%
Columbian	1,142	0.32%	3.35%
Ecuadorian	194	0.05%	0.57%
Paraguayan	3	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	538	0.15%	1.58%
Uruguayan	11	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	48	0.01%	0.14%
Other South American	89	0.03%	0.26%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,143	1.45%	15.08%
Spaniard	71	0.02%	0.21%
Spanish	815	0.23%	2.39%
Spanish American	62	0.02%	0.18%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,195	1.18%	12.30%

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

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