624,000 claim Finnish ancestry in the USA

Abstrakti

The US Census 2000 numbers for those claiming Finnish ancestry were published in September 2002. The long form distributed to every sixth household included the question What is your ancestry or ethnic origin? Adjusted statistically for the entire US population, the number for ”Finnish” is 623,573. This includes all that answered Finnish only, as well as those claiming Finnish first or second in case of multiple ancestries. The total is about 5 percent less than the 659,000 persons declaring Finnish ancestry in 1990 Census.