Washington County, RI Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 129.74K Washington County, RI population, 32.78K had Irish ancestry (25.27%), 25.84K had Italian ancestry (19.91%), and 24.67K had English ancestry (19.02%).

The chart below shows the top 10 ancestry groups, and the table below shows both the number and percentages for all ancestry groups.

You can see similar information for other Rhode Island counties, and for Rhode Island.

Washington County, RI Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
Irish
Italian
English
Unclassified
Other Groups
German
French (except Basque)
Polish
French Canadian
American
Washington County, RI Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Irish 32782 25.27
Italian 25836 19.91
English 24669 19.02
Unclassified 21070 16.24
Other Groups 13846 10.67
German 10655 8.21
French (except Basque) 10508 8.10
Polish 5492 4.23
French Canadian 5404 4.17
American 5356 4.13
Portuguese 4924 3.80
Scottish 3902 3.01
Swedish 2090 1.61
European 1999 1.54
Russian 1273 0.98
Greek 1090 0.84
British 1023 0.79
Scotch Irish 933 0.72
Dutch 889 0.69
Subsaharan African 839 0.65
Norwegian 776 0.60
Hungarian 658 0.51
Eastern European 656 0.51
Cape Verdean 610 0.47
Czech 600 0.46
Lithuanian 573 0.44
Armenian 519 0.40
Welsh 468 0.36
Finnish 443 0.34
Lebanese 427 0.33
Canadian 381 0.29
Austrian 370 0.28
Ukrainian 369 0.28
Danish 341 0.26
Albania 302 0.23
Swiss 281 0.22
Scandinavian 266 0.21
Syrian 254 0.20
Northern European 192 0.15
Romanian 189 0.15
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 171 0.13
Slovak 161 0.12
Latvian 149 0.12
African 149 0.12
Belgian 113 0.09
Egyptian 107 0.08
Czechoslovakian 102 0.08
Israeli 81 0.06
Brazilian 75 0.06
Croatian 75 0.06
Pennsylvania German 73 0.06
Jamaican 57 0.04
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 51 0.04
Haitian 47 0.04
Turkish 38 0.03
Nigerian 37 0.03
Yugoslavian 20 0.02
Senegalese 19 0.02
Iranian 17 0.01
Serbian 16 0.01
Celtic 14 0.01
Bulgarian 12 0.01
Ethiopian 10 0.01
Australian 9 0.01
Slovene 8 0.01
Zimbabwean 8 0.01
West Indian 6 0.01
Belizean 4 0.00