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)	114,775	97.48%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	2,968	2.52%	100.00%
Mexican	916	0.78%	30.86%
Puerto Rican	668	0.57%	22.51%
Cuban	237	0.20%	7.99%
Dominican	33	0.03%	1.11%
Central American	147	0.12%	4.95%
Costa Rican	18	0.02%	0.61%
Guatemalan	26	0.02%	0.88%
Honduran	21	0.02%	0.71%
Nicaraguan	9	0.01%	0.30%
Panamanian	55	0.05%	1.85%
Salvadorian	16	0.01%	0.54%
Other Central American	2	0.00%	0.07%
South American	155	0.13%	5.22%
Argentinian	15	0.01%	0.51%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	13	0.01%	0.44%
Columbian	55	0.05%	1.85%
Ecuadorian	15	0.01%	0.51%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	30	0.03%	1.01%
Uruguayan	3	0.00%	0.10%
Venezuelan	11	0.01%	0.37%
Other South American	10	0.01%	0.34%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	812	0.69%	27.36%
Spaniard	30	0.03%	1.01%
Spanish	197	0.17%	6.64%
Spanish American	10	0.01%	0.34%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	575	0.49%	19.37%

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

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