QT-P13. Ancestry: 2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Boston--Worcester--Lawrence, MA--NH--ME--CT CMSA

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

5,819,101

100.0

Ancestry specified

5,003,372

86.0

Single ancestry

3,299,330

56.7

Multiple ancestry

1,704,042

29.3

Ancestry unclassified or not reported

815,729

14.0

Total ancestries reported

6,707,414

115.3

Acadian/Cajun

339

0.0

Afghan

188

0.0

Albanian

10,751

0.2

Alsatian

459

0.0

Arab

51,143

0.9

Egyptian

3,371

0.1

Iraqi

455

0.0

Jordanian

670

0.0

Lebanese

30,281

0.5

Moroccan

1,974

0.0

Palestinian

973

0.0

Syrian

6,633

0.1

Arab/Arabic

4,222

0.1

Other Arab

2,564

0.0

Armenian

28,432

0.5

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac

489

0.0

Australian

1,852

0.0

Austrian

13,966

0.2

Basque

428

0.0

Belgian

5,946

0.1

Brazilian

28,416

0.5

British

26,486

0.5

Bulgarian

1,169

0.0

Canadian

54,168

0.9

Celtic

2,042

0.0

Croatian

2,104

0.0

Cypriot

178

0.0

Czech

9,058

0.2

Czechoslovakian

4,559

0.1

Danish

14,881

0.3

Dutch

40,318

0.7

English

684,711

11.8

Estonian

931

0.0

European

27,207

0.5

Finnish

27,021

0.5

French (except Basque)

461,247

7.9

French Canadian

309,535

5.3

German

350,315

6.0

German Russian

28

0.0

Greek

80,193

1.4

Guyanese

818

0.0

Hungarian

17,153

0.3

Icelander

769

0.0

Iranian

5,610

0.1

Irish

1,338,900

23.0

Israeli

3,419

0.1

Italian

801,020

13.8

Latvian

4,365

0.1

Lithuanian

48,479

0.8

Luxemburger

231

0.0

Macedonian

175

0.0

Maltese

182

0.0

Norwegian

35,774

0.6

Pennsylvania German

684

0.0

Polish

241,069

4.1

Portuguese

192,017

3.3

Romanian

6,526

0.1

Russian

98,952

1.7

Scandinavian

5,721

0.1

Scotch-Irish

97,757

1.7

Scottish

155,639

2.7

Serbian

938

0.0

Slavic

1,205

0.0

Slovak

6,315

0.1

Slovene

887

0.0

Subsaharan African

73,663

1.3

African

17,675

0.3

Cape Verdean

40,637

0.7

Ethiopian

2,016

0.0

Ghanian

1,951

0.0

Kenyan

1,096

0.0

Liberian

714

0.0

Nigerian

3,881

0.1

Sierra Leonean

376

0.0

Somalian

994

0.0

South African

1,437

0.0

Sudanese

310

0.0

Other Subsaharan African

2,576

0.0

Swedish

112,532

1.9

Swiss

9,310

0.2

Turkish

3,730

0.1

Ukrainian

18,650

0.3

United States or American

237,086

4.1

Welsh

22,497

0.4

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

77,453

1.3

Bahamian

167

0.0

Barbadian

3,760

0.1

Belizean

176

0.0

British West Indian

2,216

0.0

Dutch West Indian

144

0.0

Haitian

43,555

0.7

Jamaican

15,524

0.3

Trinidadian or Tobagonian

5,039

0.1

U.S. Virgin Islander

494

0.0

West Indian

6,053

0.1

Other West Indian

325

0.0

Yugoslavian

4,584

0.1

Other ancestries

844,744

14.5

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.