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)	517,655	87.45%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	74,277	12.55%	100.00%
Mexican	1,573	0.27%	2.12%
Puerto Rican	61,310	10.36%	82.54%
Cuban	611	0.10%	0.82%
Dominican	1,103	0.19%	1.48%
Central American	892	0.15%	1.20%
Costa Rican	131	0.02%	0.18%
Guatemalan	168	0.03%	0.23%
Honduran	91	0.02%	0.12%
Nicaraguan	31	0.01%	0.04%
Panamanian	179	0.03%	0.24%
Salvadorian	231	0.04%	0.31%
Other Central American	61	0.01%	0.08%
South American	1,464	0.25%	1.97%
Argentinian	101	0.02%	0.14%
Bolivian	18	0.00%	0.02%
Chilean	76	0.01%	0.10%
Columbian	685	0.12%	0.92%
Ecuadorian	192	0.03%	0.26%
Paraguayan	11	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	212	0.04%	0.29%
Uruguayan	15	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	76	0.01%	0.10%
Other South American	78	0.01%	0.11%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	7,324	1.24%	9.86%
Spaniard	152	0.03%	0.20%
Spanish	804	0.14%	1.08%
Spanish American	92	0.02%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,276	1.06%	8.45%

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

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