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)	89,104	96.38%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,342	3.62%	100.00%
Mexican	980	1.06%	29.32%
Puerto Rican	905	0.98%	27.08%
Cuban	134	0.14%	4.01%
Dominican	38	0.04%	1.14%
Central American	312	0.34%	9.34%
Costa Rican	15	0.02%	0.45%
Guatemalan	42	0.05%	1.26%
Honduran	34	0.04%	1.02%
Nicaraguan	20	0.02%	0.60%
Panamanian	95	0.10%	2.84%
Salvadorian	83	0.09%	2.48%
Other Central American	23	0.02%	0.69%
South American	236	0.26%	7.06%
Argentinian	20	0.02%	0.60%
Bolivian	7	0.01%	0.21%
Chilean	10	0.01%	0.30%
Columbian	70	0.08%	2.09%
Ecuadorian	42	0.05%	1.26%
Paraguayan	4	0.00%	0.12%
Peruvian	41	0.04%	1.23%
Uruguayan	1	0.00%	0.03%
Venezuelan	18	0.02%	0.54%
Other South American	23	0.02%	0.69%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	737	0.80%	22.05%
Spaniard	20	0.02%	0.60%
Spanish	152	0.16%	4.55%
Spanish American	31	0.03%	0.93%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	534	0.58%	15.98%

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

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