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)	345,445	97.06%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	10,459	2.94%	100.00%
Mexican	6,753	1.90%	64.57%
Puerto Rican	881	0.25%	8.42%
Cuban	189	0.05%	1.81%
Dominican	21	0.01%	0.20%
Central American	525	0.15%	5.02%
Costa Rican	24	0.01%	0.23%
Guatemalan	88	0.02%	0.84%
Honduran	88	0.02%	0.84%
Nicaraguan	28	0.01%	0.27%
Panamanian	39	0.01%	0.37%
Salvadorian	227	0.06%	2.17%
Other Central American	31	0.01%	0.30%
South American	589	0.17%	5.63%
Argentinian	22	0.01%	0.21%
Bolivian	15	0.00%	0.14%
Chilean	39	0.01%	0.37%
Columbian	210	0.06%	2.01%
Ecuadorian	154	0.04%	1.47%
Paraguayan	15	0.00%	0.14%
Peruvian	63	0.02%	0.60%
Uruguayan	4	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	39	0.01%	0.37%
Other South American	28	0.01%	0.27%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,501	0.42%	14.35%
Spaniard	27	0.01%	0.26%
Spanish	230	0.06%	2.20%
Spanish American	9	0.00%	0.09%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	1,235	0.35%	11.81%

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

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