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)	132,491	97.16%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	3,873	2.84%	100.00%
Mexican	320	0.23%	8.26%
Puerto Rican	2,300	1.69%	59.39%
Cuban	171	0.13%	4.42%
Dominican	69	0.05%	1.78%
Central American	89	0.07%	2.30%
Costa Rican	9	0.01%	0.23%
Guatemalan	23	0.02%	0.59%
Honduran	9	0.01%	0.23%
Nicaraguan	9	0.01%	0.23%
Panamanian	19	0.01%	0.49%
Salvadorian	12	0.01%	0.31%
Other Central American	8	0.01%	0.21%
South American	379	0.28%	9.79%
Argentinian	35	0.03%	0.90%
Bolivian	10	0.01%	0.26%
Chilean	48	0.04%	1.24%
Columbian	111	0.08%	2.87%
Ecuadorian	27	0.02%	0.70%
Paraguayan	6	0.00%	0.15%
Peruvian	94	0.07%	2.43%
Uruguayan	11	0.01%	0.28%
Venezuelan	26	0.02%	0.67%
Other South American	11	0.01%	0.28%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	545	0.40%	14.07%
Spaniard	42	0.03%	1.08%
Spanish	121	0.09%	3.12%
Spanish American	5	0.00%	0.13%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	377	0.28%	9.73%

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

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