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Yancey County

QT-P13. Ancestry: 2000

Ancestry Number Percent
     
        Total population: 17,774 100.0%
Ancestry specified 10,797 60.7%
        Single ancestry 9,015 50.7%
        Multiple ancestry 1,782 10.0%
Ancestry unclassified or not reported 6,977 39.3%
     
        Total ancestries reported 12,579 70.8%
Acadian/Cajun 0 0.0%
Afghan 0 0.0%
Albanian 0 0.0%
Alsatian 0 0.0%
Arab: 1 0.0%
    Egyptian 0 0.0%
    Iraqi 0 0.0%
    Jordanian 0 0.0%
    Lebanese 1 0.0%
    Moroccan 0 0.0%
    Palestinian 0 0.0%
    Syrian 0 0.0%
    Arab/Arabic 0 0.0%
    Other Arab 0 0.0%
     
Armenian 0 0.0%
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 0 0.0%
Australian 0 0.0%
Austrian 20 0.1%
Basque 0 0.0%
Belgian 2 0.0%
Brazilian 0 0.0%
British 55 0.3%
Bulgarian 0 0.0%
Canadian 9 0.1%
     
Celtic 0 0.0%
Croatian 0 0.0%
Cypriot 0 0.0%
Czech 2 0.0%
Czechoslovakian 7 0.0%
Danish 22 0.1%
Dutch 160 0.9%
English 1,599 9.0%
Estonian 1 0.0%
European 350 2.0%
     
Finnish 1 0.0%
French (except Basque) 141 0.8%
French Canadian 18 0.1%
German 1,143 6.4%
German Russian 0 0.0%
Greek 10 0.1%
Guyanese 0 0.0%
Hungarian 14 0.1%
Icelander 0 0.0%
Iranian 0 0.0%
Irish 1,377 7.7%
Israeli 0 0.0%
Italian 170 1.0%
Latvian 0 0.0%
Lithuanian 11 0.1%
Luxemburger 0 0.0%
Macedonian 0 0.0%
Maltese 0 0.0%
Norwegian 44 0.2%
Pennsylvania German 4 0.0%
     
Polish 105 0.6%
Portuguese 2 0.0%
Romanian 22 0.1%
Russian 41 0.2%
Scandinavian 13 0.1%
Scotch-Irish 1,085 6.1%
Scottish 472 2.7%
Serbian 0 0.0%
Slavic 0 0.0%
Slovak 0 0.0%
Slovene 0 0.0%
     
Subsaharan African 8 0.0%
    African 8 0.0%
    Cape Verdean 0 0.0%
    Ethiopian 0 0.0%
    Ghanian 0 0.0%
    Kenyan 0 0.0%
    Liberian 0 0.0%
    Nigerian 0 0.0%
    Sierra Leonean 0 0.0%
    Somalian 0 0.0%
    South African 0 0.0%
    Sudanese 0 0.0%
    Other Subsaharan African 0 0.0%
     
Swedish 102 0.6%
Swiss 35 0.2%
Turkish 8 0.0%
Ukrainian 2 0.0%
United States or American 4,080 23.0%
Welsh 77 0.4%
     
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 15 0.1%
    Bahamian 10 0.1%
    Barbadian 0 0.0%
    Belizean 0 0.0%
    British West Indian 0 0.0%
    Dutch West Indian 0 0.0%
    Haitian 0 0.0%
    Jamaican 0 0.0%
    Trinidadian and Tobagonian 5 0.0%
    U.S. Virgin Islander 0 0.0%
    West Indian 0 0.0%
    Other West Indian 0 0.0%
Yugoslavian 0 0.0%
Other ancestries 1,351 7.6%

 

Date: October 2, 2002

[Data based on a sample]
(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices PCT15 and PCT18.
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