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)	640,093	98.30%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	11,061	1.70%	100.00%
Mexican	2,999	0.46%	27.11%
Puerto Rican	2,207	0.34%	19.95%
Cuban	508	0.08%	4.59%
Dominican	344	0.05%	3.11%
Central American	1,205	0.19%	10.89%
Costa Rican	56	0.01%	0.51%
Guatemalan	189	0.03%	1.71%
Honduran	278	0.04%	2.51%
Nicaraguan	29	0.00%	0.26%
Panamanian	105	0.02%	0.95%
Salvadorian	503	0.08%	4.55%
Other Central American	45	0.01%	0.41%
South American	779	0.12%	7.04%
Argentinian	93	0.01%	0.84%
Bolivian	17	0.00%	0.15%
Chilean	43	0.01%	0.39%
Columbian	179	0.03%	1.62%
Ecuadorian	133	0.02%	1.20%
Paraguayan	8	0.00%	0.07%
Peruvian	180	0.03%	1.63%
Uruguayan	9	0.00%	0.08%
Venezuelan	81	0.01%	0.73%
Other South American	36	0.01%	0.33%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,019	0.46%	27.29%
Spaniard	92	0.01%	0.83%
Spanish	479	0.07%	4.33%
Spanish American	51	0.01%	0.46%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,397	0.37%	21.67%

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

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