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)	62,869	97.73%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	1,459	2.27%	100.00%
Mexican	131	0.20%	8.98%
Puerto Rican	876	1.36%	60.04%
Cuban	41	0.06%	2.81%
Dominican	106	0.16%	7.27%
Central American	60	0.09%	4.11%
Costa Rican	7	0.01%	0.48%
Guatemalan	6	0.01%	0.41%
Honduran	12	0.02%	0.82%
Nicaraguan	3	0.00%	0.21%
Panamanian	9	0.01%	0.62%
Salvadorian	20	0.03%	1.37%
Other Central American	3	0.00%	0.21%
South American	74	0.12%	5.07%
Argentinian	7	0.01%	0.48%
Bolivian	0	0.00%	0.00%
Chilean	4	0.01%	0.27%
Columbian	30	0.05%	2.06%
Ecuadorian	7	0.01%	0.48%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	17	0.03%	1.17%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.07%
Venezuelan	5	0.01%	0.34%
Other South American	3	0.00%	0.21%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	171	0.27%	11.72%
Spaniard	4	0.01%	0.27%
Spanish	23	0.04%	1.58%
Spanish American	4	0.01%	0.27%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	140	0.22%	9.60%

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

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