Largest White Ancestry Group By County, New York State
NYS total (% of state population)
Alone or in combination (meaning Amerimutts mixed up with other European ethnicities but this is the majority of their ancestral DNA and what they identify as)
Irish - 2,503,431 - 12.4%
Italian - 2,298,495 - 11.4%
German - 2,026,546 - 10%
English - 1,641,789 - 8.1%
Alone: (meaning these are “pure” unmixed Europeans of the ethnicities)
Italian - 1,104,185 - 5.5%
Irish - 730,165 - 3.6%
English - 668,011 - 3.3%
German - 472,982 - 2.3%
Seems like Irish mutts actually edge out Italians as the largest European ethnic group in New York, but there are more “pure” Italians in New York than “pure” Irish people.
Alone or in combination (meaning Amerimutts mixed up with other European ethnicities but this is the majority of their ancestral DNA and what they identify as)
Irish - 2,503,431 - 12.4%
Italian - 2,298,495 - 11.4%
German - 2,026,546 - 10%
English - 1,641,789 - 8.1%
Alone: (meaning these are “pure” unmixed Europeans of the ethnicities)
Italian - 1,104,185 - 5.5%
Irish - 730,165 - 3.6%
English - 668,011 - 3.3%
German - 472,982 - 2.3%
Seems like Irish mutts actually edge out Italians as the largest European ethnic group in New York, but there are more “pure” Italians in New York than “pure” Irish people.
