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)	151,141	90.22%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	16,376	9.78%	100.00%
Mexican	13,299	7.94%	81.21%
Puerto Rican	246	0.15%	1.50%
Cuban	102	0.06%	0.62%
Dominican	8	0.00%	0.05%
Central American	131	0.08%	0.80%
Costa Rican	15	0.01%	0.09%
Guatemalan	31	0.02%	0.19%
Honduran	15	0.01%	0.09%
Nicaraguan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Panamanian	6	0.00%	0.04%
Salvadorian	49	0.03%	0.30%
Other Central American	15	0.01%	0.09%
South American	116	0.07%	0.71%
Argentinian	16	0.01%	0.10%
Bolivian	15	0.01%	0.09%
Chilean	18	0.01%	0.11%
Columbian	22	0.01%	0.13%
Ecuadorian	11	0.01%	0.07%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	7	0.00%	0.04%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	12	0.01%	0.07%
Other South American	12	0.01%	0.07%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,474	1.48%	15.11%
Spaniard	57	0.03%	0.35%
Spanish	513	0.31%	3.13%
Spanish American	42	0.03%	0.26%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,862	1.11%	11.37%

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

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