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Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish Gaelic: ... The table shows the ethnic Scottish population in the British colonies from 1700 to 1775. In 1700 the ...
The table shows the ethnic Scottish population in the United States from 1700 to 2013. In 1700, the total population of the American colonies was 250,888 of whom 223,071 (89%) were white and 3.0% were ethnically Scottish. [28] [29] In the 2000 census, 4.8 million Americans [37] self
[6] [7] In the 2017 American Community Survey, 5.39 million (1.7% of the population) reported Scottish ancestry, an additional 3 million (0.9% of the population) identified more specifically with Scotch-Irish ancestry, and many people who claim "American ancestry" may actually be of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Demographers regard current figures as a "serious under-count", as a large proportion of Americans of British descent have a tendency to simply identify as 'American' since 1980 where over 13.3 million or 5.9% of the total U.S. population self-identified as "American" or "United States", this was counted under "not specified". [5]
U.S. cities with large Irish American populations. The city with the highest Irish population is Boston, Massachusetts.
Total population; Estimated at 200 million [1] ... Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans and Scotch-Irish Americans; country with the most people of British descent.
Americans of Scottish descent outnumber the population of Scotland, where 4,459,071 or 88.09% of people identified as ethnic Scottish in the 2001 Census. [47] [48] James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. In the 2013 American Community Survey 5,310,285 identified as Scottish and 2,976,878 as of Scots-Irish descent. [37]
American ancestry; Total population; 19,364,103 (5.93%) 2021 estimates, self-reported [1]: Regions with significant populations; Southern United States and Midwestern United States, especially Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia