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)	65,929	94.04%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	4,182	5.96%	100.00%
Mexican	3,216	4.59%	76.90%
Puerto Rican	278	0.40%	6.65%
Cuban	144	0.21%	3.44%
Dominican	14	0.02%	0.33%
Central American	93	0.13%	2.22%
Costa Rican	16	0.02%	0.38%
Guatemalan	8	0.01%	0.19%
Honduran	11	0.02%	0.26%
Nicaraguan	37	0.05%	0.88%
Panamanian	11	0.02%	0.26%
Salvadorian	8	0.01%	0.19%
Other Central American	2	0.00%	0.05%
South American	85	0.12%	2.03%
Argentinian	3	0.00%	0.07%
Bolivian	3	0.00%	0.07%
Chilean	3	0.00%	0.07%
Columbian	41	0.06%	0.98%
Ecuadorian	3	0.00%	0.07%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	9	0.01%	0.22%
Uruguayan	6	0.01%	0.14%
Venezuelan	13	0.02%	0.31%
Other South American	4	0.01%	0.10%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	352	0.50%	8.42%
Spaniard	10	0.01%	0.24%
Spanish	37	0.05%	0.88%
Spanish American	4	0.01%	0.10%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	301	0.43%	7.20%

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

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