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Watauga County

QT-P13. Ancestry: 2000

Ancestry Number Percent
     
        Total population: 42,695 100.0%
Ancestry specified 29,678 69.5%
        Single ancestry 21,035 49.3%
        Multiple ancestry 8,643 20.2%
Ancestry unclassified or not reported 13,017 30.5%
     
        Total ancestries reported 38,321 89.8%
Acadian/Cajun 0 0.0%
Afghan 0 0.0%
Albanian 0 0.0%
Alsatian 0 0.0%
Arab: 118 0.3%
    Egyptian 5 0.0%
    Iraqi 0 0.0%
    Jordanian 0 0.0%
    Lebanese 56 0.1%
    Moroccan 0 0.0%
    Palestinian 0 0.0%
    Syrian 41 0.1%
    Arab/Arabic 16 0.0%
    Other Arab 0 0.0%
     
Armenian 9 0.0%
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 0 0.0%
Australian 2 0.0%
Austrian 47 0.1%
Basque 1 0.0%
Belgian 34 0.1%
Brazilian 7 0.0%
British 391 0.9%
Bulgarian 0 0.0%
Canadian 65 0.2%
     
Celtic 25 0.1%
Croatian 15 0.0%
Cypriot 0 0.0%
Czech 55 0.1%
Czechoslovakian 28 0.1%
Danish 63 0.1%
Dutch 743 1.7%
English 6,350 14.9%
Estonian 0 0.0%
European 802 1.9%
     
Finnish 33 0.1%
French (except Basque) 1,035 2.4%
French Canadian 170 0.4%
German 6,163 14.4%
German Russian 0 0.0%
Greek 202 0.5%
Guyanese 0 0.0%
Hungarian 36 0.1%
Icelander 8 0.0%
Iranian 0 0.0%
Irish 4,015 9.4%
Israeli 41 0.1%
Italian 1,378 3.2%
Latvian 7 0.0%
Lithuanian 29 0.1%
Luxemburger 0 0.0%
Macedonian 0 0.0%
Maltese 11 0.0%
Norwegian 393 0.9%
Pennsylvania German 12 0.0%
     
Polish 514 1.2%
Portuguese 22 0.1%
Romanian 25 0.1%
Russian 129 0.3%
Scandinavian 79 0.2%
Scotch-Irish 2,685 6.3%
Scottish 2,045 4.8%
Serbian 0 0.0%
Slavic 21 0.0%
Slovak 11 0.0%
Slovene 9 0.0%
     
Subsaharan African 49 0.1%
    African 47 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 2 0.0%
    Sudanese 0 0.0%
    Other Subsaharan African 0 0.0%
     
Swedish 565 1.3%
Swiss 156 0.4%
Turkish 13 0.0%
Ukrainian 54 0.1%
United States or American 5,530 13.0%
Welsh 291 0.7%
     
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 57 0.1%
    Bahamian 0 0.0%
    Barbadian 0 0.0%
    Belizean 0 0.0%
    British West Indian 0 0.0%
    Dutch West Indian 22 0.1%
    Haitian 0 0.0%
    Jamaican 0 0.0%
    Trinidadian and Tobagonian 35 0.1%
    U.S. Virgin Islander 0 0.0%
    West Indian 0 0.0%
    Other West Indian 0 0.0%
Yugoslavian 14 0.0%
Other ancestries 3,764 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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