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)	110,081	88.68%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	14,049	11.32%	100.00%
Mexican	11,375	9.16%	80.97%
Puerto Rican	174	0.14%	1.24%
Cuban	41	0.03%	0.29%
Dominican	12	0.01%	0.09%
Central American	917	0.74%	6.53%
Costa Rican	5	0.00%	0.04%
Guatemalan	546	0.44%	3.89%
Honduran	39	0.03%	0.28%
Nicaraguan	40	0.03%	0.28%
Panamanian	22	0.02%	0.16%
Salvadorian	193	0.16%	1.37%
Other Central American	72	0.06%	0.51%
South American	82	0.07%	0.58%
Argentinian	2	0.00%	0.01%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.03%
Chilean	14	0.01%	0.10%
Columbian	17	0.01%	0.12%
Ecuadorian	11	0.01%	0.08%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	24	0.02%	0.17%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	6	0.00%	0.04%
Other South American	4	0.00%	0.03%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,448	1.17%	10.31%
Spaniard	18	0.01%	0.13%
Spanish	97	0.08%	0.69%
Spanish American	5	0.00%	0.04%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,328	1.07%	9.45%

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

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