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)	558,617	95.29%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	27,599	4.71%	100.00%
Mexican	9,294	1.59%	33.68%
Puerto Rican	11,566	1.97%	41.91%
Cuban	755	0.13%	2.74%
Dominican	554	0.09%	2.01%
Central American	683	0.12%	2.47%
Costa Rican	101	0.02%	0.37%
Guatemalan	138	0.02%	0.50%
Honduran	95	0.02%	0.34%
Nicaraguan	38	0.01%	0.14%
Panamanian	159	0.03%	0.58%
Salvadorian	123	0.02%	0.45%
Other Central American	29	0.00%	0.11%
South American	1,396	0.24%	5.06%
Argentinian	152	0.03%	0.55%
Bolivian	18	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	123	0.02%	0.45%
Columbian	496	0.08%	1.80%
Ecuadorian	168	0.03%	0.61%
Paraguayan	29	0.00%	0.11%
Peruvian	166	0.03%	0.60%
Uruguayan	7	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	192	0.03%	0.70%
Other South American	45	0.01%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,351	0.57%	12.14%
Spaniard	90	0.02%	0.33%
Spanish	549	0.09%	1.99%
Spanish American	54	0.01%	0.20%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,658	0.45%	9.63%

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

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