Mapping American Ancestry
The USA is a soil of immigrants. You tin encounter the influence that dissimilar ancestry groups bring made on American civilization all or then you. However your local civilization powerfulness live on influenced to a greater extent than past times some ancestry groups than others depending on where you lot alive inwards the United States.
German-Americans are the biggest ancestry group. In the 2016 American Community Survey 44 1000000 people said that they had High German ancestry. As you lot tin encounter from the screenshot higher upward a lot of them alive inwards the Midwest. The 2nd biggest ancestry grouping is Irish-Americans. H5N1 lot of Americans who claim Irish Gaelic ancestry alive inwards the Northeast of the country.
Esri's Ancestry map shows the seat out of Americans claiming to bring ancestry from whatever ane of 25 dissimilar countries or then the world. The map shows how many people inwards each county reported belonging to ane of 25 dissimilar ancestry groups.The ancestry information for the map comes from the American Community Survey 2011-2015.
The per centum of citizens reporting every bit coming from an ancestry grouping is shown past times the color of the squares placed over each county. The size of the squares represents the seat out of the population who reported coming from that ancestry group. You tin choose from the 25 dissimilar ancestry groups past times clicking on the 'content' button.