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)	175,284	82.09%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	38,233	17.91%	100.00%
Mexican	30,279	14.18%	79.20%
Puerto Rican	471	0.22%	1.23%
Cuban	122	0.06%	0.32%
Dominican	6	0.00%	0.02%
Central American	306	0.14%	0.80%
Costa Rican	8	0.00%	0.02%
Guatemalan	39	0.02%	0.10%
Honduran	55	0.03%	0.14%
Nicaraguan	39	0.02%	0.10%
Panamanian	48	0.02%	0.13%
Salvadorian	94	0.04%	0.25%
Other Central American	23	0.01%	0.06%
South American	150	0.07%	0.39%
Argentinian	14	0.01%	0.04%
Bolivian	4	0.00%	0.01%
Chilean	14	0.01%	0.04%
Columbian	53	0.02%	0.14%
Ecuadorian	8	0.00%	0.02%
Paraguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Peruvian	18	0.01%	0.05%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	30	0.01%	0.08%
Other South American	8	0.00%	0.02%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,899	3.23%	18.04%
Spaniard	24	0.01%	0.06%
Spanish	459	0.21%	1.20%
Spanish American	22	0.01%	0.06%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,394	2.99%	16.72%

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

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