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)	205,219	82.04%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	44,939	17.96%	100.00%
Mexican	34,670	13.86%	77.15%
Puerto Rican	822	0.33%	1.83%
Cuban	335	0.13%	0.75%
Dominican	52	0.02%	0.12%
Central American	1,202	0.48%	2.67%
Costa Rican	42	0.02%	0.09%
Guatemalan	143	0.06%	0.32%
Honduran	306	0.12%	0.68%
Nicaraguan	39	0.02%	0.09%
Panamanian	60	0.02%	0.13%
Salvadorian	547	0.22%	1.22%
Other Central American	65	0.03%	0.14%
South American	523	0.21%	1.16%
Argentinian	49	0.02%	0.11%
Bolivian	56	0.02%	0.12%
Chilean	30	0.01%	0.07%
Columbian	143	0.06%	0.32%
Ecuadorian	30	0.01%	0.07%
Paraguayan	7	0.00%	0.02%
Peruvian	76	0.03%	0.17%
Uruguayan	5	0.00%	0.01%
Venezuelan	100	0.04%	0.22%
Other South American	27	0.01%	0.06%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	7,335	2.93%	16.32%
Spaniard	111	0.04%	0.25%
Spanish	760	0.30%	1.69%
Spanish American	56	0.02%	0.12%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	6,408	2.56%	14.26%

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

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