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)	225,515	89.47%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	26,536	10.53%	100.00%
Mexican	20,155	8.00%	75.95%
Puerto Rican	401	0.16%	1.51%
Cuban	306	0.12%	1.15%
Dominican	39	0.02%	0.15%
Central American	994	0.39%	3.75%
Costa Rican	7	0.00%	0.03%
Guatemalan	95	0.04%	0.36%
Honduran	180	0.07%	0.68%
Nicaraguan	492	0.20%	1.85%
Panamanian	43	0.02%	0.16%
Salvadorian	143	0.06%	0.54%
Other Central American	34	0.01%	0.13%
South American	368	0.15%	1.39%
Argentinian	28	0.01%	0.11%
Bolivian	2	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	29	0.01%	0.11%
Columbian	181	0.07%	0.68%
Ecuadorian	11	0.00%	0.04%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	46	0.02%	0.17%
Uruguayan	6	0.00%	0.02%
Venezuelan	41	0.02%	0.15%
Other South American	24	0.01%	0.09%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	4,273	1.70%	16.10%
Spaniard	63	0.02%	0.24%
Spanish	395	0.16%	1.49%
Spanish American	38	0.02%	0.14%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	3,777	1.50%	14.23%

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

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