Number of British Americans

According to 2000 Census figures, there are 60.7 million Americans of self-reported British Isles ancestry today. These include:

* 28.2 million English

* 20 million United States or American by ancestry (the overwhelming majority of these being originally British ancestry)

* 5.4 million Scottish

* 5.2 million Scotch-Irish

* 1.9 million Welsh

These figures make British Americans the largest ethnic group in the U.S. when counted collectively (although the Census Bureau does not count them collectively). More than 30% of the white non-Hispanic population in America is of British ancestry.