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)	681,234	98.22%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	12,370	1.78%	100.00%
Mexican	5,071	0.73%	40.99%
Puerto Rican	1,372	0.20%	11.09%
Cuban	2,325	0.34%	18.80%
Dominican	44	0.01%	0.36%
Central American	736	0.11%	5.95%
Costa Rican	23	0.00%	0.19%
Guatemalan	288	0.04%	2.33%
Honduran	64	0.01%	0.52%
Nicaraguan	41	0.01%	0.33%
Panamanian	107	0.02%	0.86%
Salvadorian	193	0.03%	1.56%
Other Central American	20	0.00%	0.16%
South American	588	0.08%	4.75%
Argentinian	67	0.01%	0.54%
Bolivian	35	0.01%	0.28%
Chilean	52	0.01%	0.42%
Columbian	156	0.02%	1.26%
Ecuadorian	54	0.01%	0.44%
Paraguayan	17	0.00%	0.14%
Peruvian	106	0.02%	0.86%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	66	0.01%	0.53%
Other South American	30	0.00%	0.24%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,234	0.32%	18.06%
Spaniard	41	0.01%	0.33%
Spanish	294	0.04%	2.38%
Spanish American	27	0.00%	0.22%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,872	0.27%	15.13%

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

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