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)	119,891	97.37%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,244	2.63%	100.00%
Mexican	569	0.46%	17.54%
Puerto Rican	1,066	0.87%	32.86%
Cuban	377	0.31%	11.62%
Dominican	42	0.03%	1.29%
Central American	142	0.12%	4.38%
Costa Rican	20	0.02%	0.62%
Guatemalan	28	0.02%	0.86%
Honduran	19	0.02%	0.59%
Nicaraguan	21	0.02%	0.65%
Panamanian	36	0.03%	1.11%
Salvadorian	11	0.01%	0.34%
Other Central American	7	0.01%	0.22%
South American	292	0.24%	9.00%
Argentinian	27	0.02%	0.83%
Bolivian	10	0.01%	0.31%
Chilean	30	0.02%	0.92%
Columbian	89	0.07%	2.74%
Ecuadorian	41	0.03%	1.26%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	48	0.04%	1.48%
Uruguayan	7	0.01%	0.22%
Venezuelan	21	0.02%	0.65%
Other South American	19	0.02%	0.59%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	756	0.61%	23.30%
Spaniard	124	0.10%	3.82%
Spanish	140	0.11%	4.32%
Spanish American	9	0.01%	0.28%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	483	0.39%	14.89%

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

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