January 10, 2008

Ancestry

Thirty-six million US residents claim Irish ancestry. Irish is the second most reported ancestry, trailing only German. Twenty-four percent of Massachusetts residents are of Irish ancestry, compared to a corresponding rate of 12 percent for the nation as a whole. Find this information and much, much more in the American Community Survey.

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