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)	222,360	95.86%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	9,609	4.14%	100.00%
Mexican	5,527	2.38%	57.52%
Puerto Rican	951	0.41%	9.90%
Cuban	191	0.08%	1.99%
Dominican	28	0.01%	0.29%
Central American	359	0.15%	3.74%
Costa Rican	29	0.01%	0.30%
Guatemalan	101	0.04%	1.05%
Honduran	60	0.03%	0.62%
Nicaraguan	27	0.01%	0.28%
Panamanian	54	0.02%	0.56%
Salvadorian	55	0.02%	0.57%
Other Central American	33	0.01%	0.34%
South American	225	0.10%	2.34%
Argentinian	23	0.01%	0.24%
Bolivian	10	0.00%	0.10%
Chilean	31	0.01%	0.32%
Columbian	66	0.03%	0.69%
Ecuadorian	23	0.01%	0.24%
Paraguayan	1	0.00%	0.01%
Peruvian	43	0.02%	0.45%
Uruguayan	0	0.00%	0.00%
Venezuelan	15	0.01%	0.16%
Other South American	13	0.01%	0.14%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	2,328	1.00%	24.23%
Spaniard	97	0.04%	1.01%
Spanish	705	0.30%	7.34%
Spanish American	56	0.02%	0.58%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,470	0.63%	15.30%

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

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