New Jersey

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)	7,297,159	86.72%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	1,117,191	13.28%	100.00%
Mexican	102,929	1.22%	9.21%
Puerto Rican	366,788	4.36%	32.83%
Cuban	77,337	0.92%	6.92%
Dominican	102,630	1.22%	9.19%
Central American	80,497	0.96%	7.21%
Costa Rican	11,175	0.13%	1.00%
Guatemalan	16,992	0.20%	1.52%
Honduran	15,431	0.18%	1.38%
Nicaraguan	4,384	0.05%	0.39%
Panamanian	3,021	0.04%	0.27%
Salvadorian	25,230	0.30%	2.26%
Other Central American	4,264	0.05%	0.38%
South American	177,017	2.10%	15.84%
Argentinian	7,795	0.09%	0.70%
Bolivian	1,755	0.02%	0.16%
Chilean	5,129	0.06%	0.46%
Columbian	65,075	0.77%	5.82%
Ecuadorian	45,392	0.54%	4.06%
Paraguayan	803	0.01%	0.07%
Peruvian	37,672	0.45%	3.37%
Uruguayan	4,079	0.05%	0.37%
Venezuelan	3,962	0.05%	0.35%
Other South American	5,355	0.06%	0.48%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	209,993	2.50%	18.80%
Spaniard	9,183	0.11%	0.82%
Spanish	23,174	0.28%	2.07%
Spanish American	2,622	0.03%	0.23%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	175,014	2.08%	15.67%

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

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