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)	354,258	91.99%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	30,832	8.01%	100.00%
Mexican	23,321	6.06%	75.64%
Puerto Rican	491	0.13%	1.59%
Cuban	347	0.09%	1.13%
Dominican	40	0.01%	0.13%
Central American	1,047	0.27%	3.40%
Costa Rican	9	0.00%	0.03%
Guatemalan	97	0.03%	0.31%
Honduran	195	0.05%	0.63%
Nicaraguan	493	0.13%	1.60%
Panamanian	54	0.01%	0.18%
Salvadorian	160	0.04%	0.52%
Other Central American	39	0.01%	0.13%
South American	423	0.11%	1.37%
Argentinian	35	0.01%	0.11%
Bolivian	3	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	34	0.01%	0.11%
Columbian	199	0.05%	0.65%
Ecuadorian	17	0.00%	0.06%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	51	0.01%	0.17%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	53	0.01%	0.17%
Other South American	25	0.01%	0.08%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,163	1.34%	16.75%
Spaniard	85	0.02%	0.28%
Spanish	551	0.14%	1.79%
Spanish American	51	0.01%	0.17%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,476	1.16%	14.52%

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

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