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Avery County

QT-P13. Ancestry: 2000

Ancestry Number Percent
     
        Total population: 17,167 100.0%
Ancestry specified 10,327 60.2%
        Single ancestry 8,441 49.2%
        Multiple ancestry 1,886 11.0%
Ancestry unclassified or not reported 6,840 39.8%
     
        Total ancestries reported 12,213 71.1%
Acadian/Cajun 0 0.0%
Afghan 0 0.0%
Albanian 9 0.1%
Alsatian 0 0.0%
Arab: 1 0.0%
    Egyptian 0 0.0%
    Iraqi 0 0.0%
    Jordanian 0 0.0%
    Lebanese 0 0.0%
    Moroccan 0 0.0%
    Palestinian 0 0.0%
    Syrian 0 0.0%
    Arab/Arabic 1 0.0%
    Other Arab 0 0.0%
     
Armenian 0 0.0%
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 0 0.0%
Australian 0 0.0%
Austrian 47 0.3%
Basque 0 0.0%
Belgian 8 0.0%
Brazilian 0 0.0%
British 75 0.4%
Bulgarian 0 0.0%
Canadian 14 0.1%
     
Celtic 0 0.0%
Croatian 9 0.1%
Cypriot 0 0.0%
Czech 12 0.1%
Czechoslovakian 31 0.2%
Danish 6 0.0%
Dutch 182 1.1%
English 1,875 10.9%
Estonian 0 0.0%
European 109 0.6%
     
Finnish 0 0.0%
French (except Basque) 187 1.1%
French Canadian 9 0.1%
German 1,376 8.0%
German Russian 0 0.0%
Greek 38 0.2%
Guyanese 0 0.0%
Hungarian 17 0.1%
Icelander 0 0.0%
Iranian 0 0.0%
Irish 1,178 6.9%
Israeli 3 0.0%
Italian 112 0.7%
Latvian 0 0.0%
Lithuanian 9 0.1%
Luxemburger 0 0.0%
Macedonian 0 0.0%
Maltese 0 0.0%
Norwegian 44 0.3%
Pennsylvania German 2 0.0%
     
Polish 80 0.5%
Portuguese 8 0.0%
Romanian 0 0.0%
Russian 23 0.1%
Scandinavian 24 0.1%
Scotch-Irish 1,028 6.0%
Scottish 820 4.8%
Serbian 0 0.0%
Slavic 0 0.0%
Slovak 2 0.0%
Slovene 0 0.0%
     
Subsaharan African 21 0.1%
    African 21 0.1%
    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 52 0.3%
Swiss 19 0.1%
Turkish 0 0.0%
Ukrainian 8 0.0%
United States or American 3,117 18.2%
Welsh 136 0.8%
     
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 7 0.0%
    Bahamian 0 0.0%
    Barbadian 0 0.0%
    Belizean 0 0.0%
    British West Indian 0 0.0%
    Dutch West Indian 5 0.0%
    Haitian 0 0.0%
    Jamaican 0 0.0%
    Trinidadian and Tobagonian 0 0.0%
    U.S. Virgin Islander 0 0.0%
    West Indian 0 0.0%
    Other West Indian 2 0.0%
Yugoslavian 0 0.0%
Other ancestries 1,515 8.8%

 

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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