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)	1,192,263	92.14%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	101,690	7.86%	100.00%
Mexican	79,324	6.13%	78.01%
Puerto Rican	1,509	0.12%	1.48%
Cuban	408	0.03%	0.40%
Dominican	47	0.00%	0.05%
Central American	1,051	0.08%	1.03%
Costa Rican	106	0.01%	0.10%
Guatemalan	321	0.02%	0.32%
Honduran	122	0.01%	0.12%
Nicaraguan	61	0.00%	0.06%
Panamanian	110	0.01%	0.11%
Salvadorian	263	0.02%	0.26%
Other Central American	68	0.01%	0.07%
South American	1,319	0.10%	1.30%
Argentinian	122	0.01%	0.12%
Bolivian	42	0.00%	0.04%
Chilean	159	0.01%	0.16%
Columbian	247	0.02%	0.24%
Ecuadorian	97	0.01%	0.10%
Paraguayan	8	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	469	0.04%	0.46%
Uruguayan	16	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	105	0.01%	0.10%
Other South American	54	0.00%	0.05%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	18,032	1.39%	17.73%
Spaniard	411	0.03%	0.40%
Spanish	2,818	0.22%	2.77%
Spanish American	173	0.01%	0.17%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	14,630	1.13%	14.39%

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

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