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QT-P13. Ancestry:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: United States

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Ancestry


Number


Percent
of total
population

 

 

 

Total population

281,421,906

100.0

Ancestry specified

225,310,411

80.1

Single ancestry

163,315,936

58.0

Multiple ancestry

61,994,475

22.0

Ancestry unclassified or not reported

56,111,495

19.9

 

 

 

Total ancestries reported

287,304,886

102.1

Acadian/Cajun

85,414

0.0

Afghan

53,709

0.0

Albanian

113,661

0.0

Alsatian

15,601

0.0

Arab

1,202,871

0.4

Egyptian

142,832

0.1

Iraqi

37,714

0.0

Jordanian

39,734

0.0

Lebanese

440,279

0.2

Moroccan

38,923

0.0

Palestinian

72,112

0.0

Syrian

142,897

0.1

Arab/Arabic

205,822

0.1

Other Arab

82,558

0.0

 

 

 

Armenian

385,488

0.1

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac

82,355

0.0

Australian

78,673

0.0

Austrian

735,128

0.3

Basque

57,793

0.0

Belgian

360,642

0.1

Brazilian

181,076

0.1

British

1,085,720

0.4

Bulgarian

55,489

0.0

Canadian

647,376

0.2

 

 

 

Celtic

65,638

0.0

Croatian

374,241

0.1

Cypriot

7,663

0.0

Czech

1,262,527

0.4

Czechoslovakian

441,403

0.2

Danish

1,430,897

0.5

Dutch

4,542,494

1.6

English

24,515,138

8.7

Estonian

25,034

0.0

European

1,968,696

0.7

 

 

 

Finnish

623,573

0.2

French (except Basque)

8,309,908

3.0

French Canadian

2,349,684

0.8

German

42,885,162

15.2

German Russian

10,535

0.0

Greek

1,153,307

0.4

Guyanese

162,456

0.1

Hungarian

1,398,724

0.5

Icelander

42,716

0.0

Iranian

338,266

0.1

Irish

30,528,492

10.8

Israeli

106,839

0.0

Italian

15,723,555

5.6

Latvian

87,564

0.0

Lithuanian

659,992

0.2

Luxemburger

45,139

0.0

Macedonian

38,051

0.0

Maltese

40,159

0.0

Norwegian

4,477,725

1.6

Pennsylvania German

255,807

0.1

 

 

 

Polish

8,977,444

3.2

Portuguese

1,177,112

0.4

Romanian

367,310

0.1

Russian

2,652,214

0.9

Scandinavian

425,099

0.2

Scotch-Irish

4,319,232

1.5

Scottish

4,890,581

1.7

Serbian

140,337

0.0

Slavic

127,137

0.0

Slovak

797,764

0.3

Slovene

176,691

0.1

 

 

 

Subsaharan African

1,781,877

0.6

African

1,183,316

0.4

Cape Verdean

77,103

0.0

Ethiopian

86,918

0.0

Ghanian

49,944

0.0

Kenyan

17,336

0.0

Liberian

25,575

0.0

Nigerian

165,481

0.1

Sierra Leonean

12,410

0.0

Somalian

36,313

0.0

South African

45,569

0.0

Sudanese

14,936

0.0

Other Subsaharan African

66,976

0.0

 

 

 

Swedish

3,998,310

1.4

Swiss

911,502

0.3

Turkish

117,575

0.0

Ukrainian

892,922

0.3

United States or American

20,625,093

7.3

Welsh

1,753,794

0.6

 

 

 

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

1,869,504

0.7

Bahamian

31,984

0.0

Barbadian

54,509

0.0

Belizean

37,688

0.0

British West Indian

84,671

0.0

Dutch West Indian

37,681

0.0

Haitian

548,199

0.2

Jamaican

736,513

0.3

Trinidadian or Tobagonian

164,778

0.1

U.S. Virgin Islander

15,014

0.0

West Indian

147,222

0.1

Other West Indian

11,245

0.0

Yugoslavian

328,547

0.1

Other ancestries

81,962,460

29.1

(X) Not applicable.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices PCT15 and PCT18.



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