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)	504,867	92.60%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	40,353	7.40%	100.00%
Mexican	32,599	5.98%	80.78%
Puerto Rican	1,027	0.19%	2.55%
Cuban	357	0.07%	0.88%
Dominican	23	0.00%	0.06%
Central American	722	0.13%	1.79%
Costa Rican	24	0.00%	0.06%
Guatemalan	112	0.02%	0.28%
Honduran	156	0.03%	0.39%
Nicaraguan	49	0.01%	0.12%
Panamanian	87	0.02%	0.22%
Salvadorian	255	0.05%	0.63%
Other Central American	39	0.01%	0.10%
South American	543	0.10%	1.35%
Argentinian	26	0.00%	0.06%
Bolivian	26	0.00%	0.06%
Chilean	40	0.01%	0.10%
Columbian	164	0.03%	0.41%
Ecuadorian	41	0.01%	0.10%
Paraguayan	13	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	92	0.02%	0.23%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	104	0.02%	0.26%
Other South American	35	0.01%	0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	5,082	0.93%	12.59%
Spaniard	49	0.01%	0.12%
Spanish	641	0.12%	1.59%
Spanish American	48	0.01%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,344	0.80%	10.76%

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

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