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)	1,010,348	93.26%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	72,998	6.74%	100.00%
Mexican	55,644	5.14%	76.23%
Puerto Rican	2,508	0.23%	3.44%
Cuban	730	0.07%	1.00%
Dominican	59	0.01%	0.08%
Central American	2,358	0.22%	3.23%
Costa Rican	90	0.01%	0.12%
Guatemalan	1,253	0.12%	1.72%
Honduran	373	0.03%	0.51%
Nicaraguan	83	0.01%	0.11%
Panamanian	294	0.03%	0.40%
Salvadorian	201	0.02%	0.28%
Other Central American	64	0.01%	0.09%
South American	1,420	0.13%	1.95%
Argentinian	115	0.01%	0.16%
Bolivian	54	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	41	0.00%	0.06%
Columbian	433	0.04%	0.59%
Ecuadorian	109	0.01%	0.15%
Paraguayan	13	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	346	0.03%	0.47%
Uruguayan	10	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	249	0.02%	0.34%
Other South American	50	0.00%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	10,279	0.95%	14.08%
Spaniard	213	0.02%	0.29%
Spanish	1,844	0.17%	2.53%
Spanish American	154	0.01%	0.21%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	8,068	0.74%	11.05%

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

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