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)	192,716	97.43%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	5,074	2.57%	100.00%
Mexican	1,457	0.74%	28.72%
Puerto Rican	815	0.41%	16.06%
Cuban	201	0.10%	3.96%
Dominican	85	0.04%	1.68%
Central American	969	0.49%	19.10%
Costa Rican	26	0.01%	0.51%
Guatemalan	425	0.21%	8.38%
Honduran	73	0.04%	1.44%
Nicaraguan	16	0.01%	0.32%
Panamanian	55	0.03%	1.08%
Salvadorian	335	0.17%	6.60%
Other Central American	39	0.02%	0.77%
South American	202	0.10%	3.98%
Argentinian	37	0.02%	0.73%
Bolivian	21	0.01%	0.41%
Chilean	7	0.00%	0.14%
Columbian	65	0.03%	1.28%
Ecuadorian	18	0.01%	0.35%
Paraguayan	7	0.00%	0.14%
Peruvian	19	0.01%	0.37%
Uruguayan	2	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	18	0.01%	0.35%
Other South American	8	0.00%	0.16%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,345	0.68%	26.51%
Spaniard	21	0.01%	0.41%
Spanish	242	0.12%	4.77%
Spanish American	4	0.00%	0.08%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,078	0.55%	21.25%

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

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