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)	253,002	95.27%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	12,557	4.73%	100.00%
Mexican	9,171	3.45%	73.03%
Puerto Rican	644	0.24%	5.13%
Cuban	165	0.06%	1.31%
Dominican	39	0.01%	0.31%
Central American	305	0.11%	2.43%
Costa Rican	23	0.01%	0.18%
Guatemalan	48	0.02%	0.38%
Honduran	43	0.02%	0.34%
Nicaraguan	32	0.01%	0.25%
Panamanian	45	0.02%	0.36%
Salvadorian	100	0.04%	0.80%
Other Central American	14	0.01%	0.11%
South American	371	0.14%	2.95%
Argentinian	41	0.02%	0.33%
Bolivian	10	0.00%	0.08%
Chilean	44	0.02%	0.35%
Columbian	77	0.03%	0.61%
Ecuadorian	32	0.01%	0.25%
Paraguayan	7	0.00%	0.06%
Peruvian	44	0.02%	0.35%
Uruguayan	3	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	102	0.04%	0.81%
Other South American	11	0.00%	0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,862	0.70%	14.83%
Spaniard	30	0.01%	0.24%
Spanish	163	0.06%	1.30%
Spanish American	15	0.01%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,654	0.62%	13.17%

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

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