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

NOTE: Corrected counts are available for one or more geographies displayed in this table.

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

6,349,097

100.0

Ancestry specified

5,455,035

85.9

Single ancestry

3,601,056

56.7

Multiple ancestry

1,853,979

29.2

Ancestry unclassified or not reported

894,062

14.1

Total ancestries reported

7,309,014

115.1

Acadian/Cajun

402

0.0

Afghan

179

0.0

Albanian

10,594

0.2

Alsatian

566

0.0

Arab

53,511

0.8

Egyptian

3,238

0.1

Iraqi

476

0.0

Jordanian

712

0.0

Lebanese

32,072

0.5

Moroccan

2,028

0.0

Palestinian

1,034

0.0

Syrian

7,123

0.1

Arab/Arabic

4,344

0.1

Other Arab

2,484

0.0

Armenian

28,595

0.5

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac

572

0.0

Australian

1,897

0.0

Austrian

15,941

0.3

Basque

383

0.0

Belgian

5,562

0.1

Brazilian

30,583

0.5

British

27,748

0.4

Bulgarian

1,140

0.0

Canadian

53,010

0.8

Celtic

2,019

0.0

Croatian

2,175

0.0

Cypriot

195

0.0

Czech

10,310

0.2

Czechoslovakian

5,252

0.1

Danish

16,335

0.3

Dutch

43,727

0.7

English

721,905

11.4

Estonian

1,034

0.0

European

29,942

0.5

Finnish

27,703

0.4

French (except Basque)

508,218

8.0

French Canadian

310,170

4.9

German

377,152

5.9

German Russian

34

0.0

Greek

78,172

1.2

Guyanese

909

0.0

Hungarian

18,427

0.3

Icelander

788

0.0

Iranian

5,764

0.1

Irish

1,426,453

22.5

Israeli

3,713

0.1

Italian

860,079

13.5

Latvian

4,695

0.1

Lithuanian

51,054

0.8

Luxemburger

210

0.0

Macedonian

221

0.0

Maltese

167

0.0

Norwegian

36,106

0.6

Pennsylvania German

815

0.0

Polish

323,210

5.1

Portuguese

279,722

4.4

Romanian

6,734

0.1

Russian

110,033

1.7

Scandinavian

5,877

0.1

Scotch-Irish

99,759

1.6

Scottish

162,357

2.6

Serbian

1,051

0.0

Slavic

1,345

0.0

Slovak

6,690

0.1

Slovene

941

0.0

Subsaharan African

80,274

1.3

African

19,442

0.3

Cape Verdean

45,125

0.7

Ethiopian

2,033

0.0

Ghanian

2,027

0.0

Kenyan

1,091

0.0

Liberian

741

0.0

Nigerian

4,064

0.1

Sierra Leonean

382

0.0

Somalian

994

0.0

South African

1,559

0.0

Sudanese

241

0.0

Other Subsaharan African

2,575

0.0

Swedish

119,267

1.9

Swiss

10,191

0.2

Turkish

3,956

0.1

Ukrainian

22,616

0.4

United States or American

244,572

3.9

Welsh

23,719

0.4

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

81,451

1.3

Bahamian

166

0.0

Barbadian

4,141

0.1

Belizean

185

0.0

British West Indian

2,258

0.0

Dutch West Indian

144

0.0

Haitian

43,576

0.7

Jamaican

18,356

0.3

Trinidadian or Tobagonian

5,226

0.1

U.S. Virgin Islander

546

0.0

West Indian

6,450

0.1

Other West Indian

403

0.0

Yugoslavian

4,089

0.1

Other ancestries

946,733

14.9

Ancestry

Number

Percent
of total
population

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