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)	150,984	78.71%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	40,838	21.29%	100.00%
Mexican	34,033	17.74%	83.34%
Puerto Rican	235	0.12%	0.58%
Cuban	103	0.05%	0.25%
Dominican	15	0.01%	0.04%
Central American	570	0.30%	1.40%
Costa Rican	5	0.00%	0.01%
Guatemalan	129	0.07%	0.32%
Honduran	31	0.02%	0.08%
Nicaraguan	30	0.02%	0.07%
Panamanian	10	0.01%	0.02%
Salvadorian	339	0.18%	0.83%
Other Central American	26	0.01%	0.06%
South American	185	0.10%	0.45%
Argentinian	16	0.01%	0.04%
Bolivian	8	0.00%	0.02%
Chilean	25	0.01%	0.06%
Columbian	59	0.03%	0.14%
Ecuadorian	20	0.01%	0.05%
Paraguayan	3	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	39	0.02%	0.10%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	5	0.00%	0.01%
Other South American	9	0.00%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,697	2.97%	13.95%
Spaniard	93	0.05%	0.23%
Spanish	503	0.26%	1.23%
Spanish American	32	0.02%	0.08%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,069	2.64%	12.41%

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

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