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)	133,515	98.35%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,243	1.65%	100.00%
Mexican	372	0.27%	16.58%
Puerto Rican	706	0.52%	31.48%
Cuban	115	0.08%	5.13%
Dominican	51	0.04%	2.27%
Central American	109	0.08%	4.86%
Costa Rican	9	0.01%	0.40%
Guatemalan	45	0.03%	2.01%
Honduran	10	0.01%	0.45%
Nicaraguan	6	0.00%	0.27%
Panamanian	13	0.01%	0.58%
Salvadorian	21	0.02%	0.94%
Other Central American	5	0.00%	0.22%
South American	319	0.23%	14.22%
Argentinian	42	0.03%	1.87%
Bolivian	20	0.01%	0.89%
Chilean	27	0.02%	1.20%
Columbian	88	0.06%	3.92%
Ecuadorian	38	0.03%	1.69%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	43	0.03%	1.92%
Uruguayan	7	0.01%	0.31%
Venezuelan	38	0.03%	1.69%
Other South American	15	0.01%	0.67%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	571	0.42%	25.46%
Spaniard	32	0.02%	1.43%
Spanish	96	0.07%	4.28%
Spanish American	1	0.00%	0.04%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	442	0.33%	19.71%

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

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