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)	740,877	89.91%	n/a
Total Hispanic (All Races)	83,131	10.09%	100.00%
Mexican	7,353	0.89%	8.85%
Puerto Rican	55,851	6.78%	67.18%
Cuban	1,544	0.19%	1.86%
Dominican	2,384	0.29%	2.87%
Central American	1,584	0.19%	1.91%
Costa Rican	151	0.02%	0.18%
Guatemalan	627	0.08%	0.75%
Honduran	202	0.02%	0.24%
Nicaraguan	133	0.02%	0.16%
Panamanian	162	0.02%	0.19%
Salvadorian	229	0.03%	0.28%
Other Central American	80	0.01%	0.10%
South American	5,471	0.66%	6.58%
Argentinian	359	0.04%	0.43%
Bolivian	41	0.00%	0.05%
Chilean	359	0.04%	0.43%
Columbian	1,636	0.20%	1.97%
Ecuadorian	1,949	0.24%	2.34%
Paraguayan	24	0.00%	0.03%
Peruvian	622	0.08%	0.75%
Uruguayan	33	0.00%	0.04%
Venezuelan	237	0.03%	0.29%
Other South American	211	0.03%	0.25%
Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	8,944	1.09%	10.76%
Spaniard	281	0.03%	0.34%
Spanish	1,164	0.14%	1.40%
Spanish American	107	0.01%	0.13%
All Other Hispanic or Latino Ancestry	7,392	0.90%	8.89%

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

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