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Wilkes County

QT-P13. Ancestry: 2000

Ancestry Number Percent
     
        Total population: 65,632 100.0%
Ancestry specified 40,730 62.1%
        Single ancestry 34,426 52.5%
        Multiple ancestry 6,304 9.6%
Ancestry unclassified or not reported 24,902 37.9%
     
        Total ancestries reported 47,034 71.7%
Acadian/Cajun 0 0.0%
Afghan 0 0.0%
Albanian 0 0.0%
Alsatian 0 0.0%
Arab: 34 0.1%
    Egyptian 19 0.0%
    Iraqi 0 0.0%
    Jordanian 7 0.0%
    Lebanese 8 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 9 0.0%
Basque 0 0.0%
Belgian 16 0.0%
Brazilian 8 0.0%
British 150 0.2%
Bulgarian 19 0.0%
Canadian 9 0.0%
     
Celtic 0 0.0%
Croatian 9 0.0%
Cypriot 0 0.0%
Czech 35 0.1%
Czechoslovakian 15 0.0%
Danish 45 0.1%
Dutch 1,011 1.5%
English 8,621 13.1%
Estonian 0 0.0%
European 369 0.6%
     
Finnish 12 0.0%
French (except Basque) 687 1.0%
French Canadian 79 0.1%
German 4,669 7.1%
German Russian 0 0.0%
Greek 64 0.1%
Guyanese 0 0.0%
Hungarian 64 0.1%
Icelander 0 0.0%
Iranian 6 0.0%
Irish 4,469 6.8%
Israeli 0 0.0%
Italian 681 1.0%
Latvian 0 0.0%
Lithuanian 28 0.0%
Luxemburger 0 0.0%
Macedonian 0 0.0%
Maltese 0 0.0%
Norwegian 169 0.3%
Pennsylvania German 15 0.0%
     
Polish 342 0.5%
Portuguese 16 0.0%
Romanian 0 0.0%
Russian 117 0.2%
Scandinavian 40 0.1%
Scotch-Irish 1,850 2.8%
Scottish 1,038 1.6%
Serbian 0 0.0%
Slavic 16 0.0%
Slovak 8 0.0%
Slovene 12 0.0%
     
Subsaharan African 117 0.2%
    African 86 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 31 0.0%
    Sudanese 0 0.0%
    Other Subsaharan African 0 0.0%
     
Swedish 208 0.3%
Swiss 66 0.1%
Turkish 0 0.0%
Ukrainian 80 0.1%
United States or American 14,370 21.9%
Welsh 159 0.2%
     
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0%
    Bahamian 0 0.0%
    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 0 0.0%
    U.S. Virgin Islander 0 0.0%
    West Indian 0 0.0%
    Other West Indian 0 0.0%
Yugoslavian 9 0.0%
Other ancestries 7,293 11.1%

 

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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