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)	291,771	97.29%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	8,125	2.71%	100.00%
Mexican	624	0.21%	7.68%
Puerto Rican	5,152	1.72%	63.41%
Cuban	232	0.08%	2.86%
Dominican	513	0.17%	6.31%
Central American	139	0.05%	1.71%
Costa Rican	8	0.00%	0.10%
Guatemalan	21	0.01%	0.26%
Honduran	20	0.01%	0.25%
Nicaraguan	5	0.00%	0.06%
Panamanian	47	0.02%	0.58%
Salvadorian	33	0.01%	0.41%
Other Central American	5	0.00%	0.06%
South American	256	0.09%	3.15%
Argentinian	17	0.01%	0.21%
Bolivian	14	0.00%	0.17%
Chilean	16	0.01%	0.20%
Columbian	97	0.03%	1.19%
Ecuadorian	40	0.01%	0.49%
Paraguayan	3	0.00%	0.04%
Peruvian	28	0.01%	0.34%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	22	0.01%	0.27%
Other South American	19	0.01%	0.23%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,209	0.40%	14.88%
Spaniard	27	0.01%	0.33%
Spanish	255	0.09%	3.14%
Spanish American	9	0.00%	0.11%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	918	0.31%	11.30%

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

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