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)	592,318	98.25%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,576	1.75%	100.00%
Mexican	4,085	0.68%	38.63%
Puerto Rican	760	0.13%	7.19%
Cuban	946	0.16%	8.94%
Dominican	56	0.01%	0.53%
Central American	1,009	0.17%	9.54%
Costa Rican	72	0.01%	0.68%
Guatemalan	142	0.02%	1.34%
Honduran	323	0.05%	3.05%
Nicaraguan	143	0.02%	1.35%
Panamanian	91	0.02%	0.86%
Salvadorian	176	0.03%	1.66%
Other Central American	62	0.01%	0.59%
South American	664	0.11%	6.28%
Argentinian	42	0.01%	0.40%
Bolivian	13	0.00%	0.12%
Chilean	48	0.01%	0.45%
Columbian	268	0.04%	2.53%
Ecuadorian	49	0.01%	0.46%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	48	0.01%	0.45%
Uruguayan	8	0.00%	0.08%
Venezuelan	141	0.02%	1.33%
Other South American	41	0.01%	0.39%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,056	0.51%	28.90%
Spaniard	105	0.02%	0.99%
Spanish	569	0.09%	5.38%
Spanish American	56	0.01%	0.53%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,326	0.39%	21.99%

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

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