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)	157,541	92.74%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	12,330	7.26%	100.00%
Mexican	9,922	5.84%	80.47%
Puerto Rican	583	0.34%	4.73%
Cuban	77	0.05%	0.62%
Dominican	8	0.00%	0.06%
Central American	98	0.06%	0.79%
Costa Rican	15	0.01%	0.12%
Guatemalan	20	0.01%	0.16%
Honduran	11	0.01%	0.09%
Nicaraguan	6	0.00%	0.05%
Panamanian	14	0.01%	0.11%
Salvadorian	27	0.02%	0.22%
Other Central American	5	0.00%	0.04%
South American	111	0.07%	0.90%
Argentinian	6	0.00%	0.05%
Bolivian	16	0.01%	0.13%
Chilean	16	0.01%	0.13%
Columbian	37	0.02%	0.30%
Ecuadorian	12	0.01%	0.10%
Paraguayan	10	0.01%	0.08%
Peruvian	7	0.00%	0.06%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	2	0.00%	0.02%
Other South American	5	0.00%	0.04%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,531	0.90%	12.42%
Spaniard	11	0.01%	0.09%
Spanish	173	0.10%	1.40%
Spanish American	17	0.01%	0.14%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,330	0.78%	10.79%

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

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