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Compare: Irish Heritage in Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, Greater Philly Area
Plenty of people claim to be Irish when St. Paddy's Day rolls around, but how many stick to that story for the Census Bureau?
Before St. Patrick's Day, we at Patch decided to crunch some census numbers to see which Philadelphia-area Patch neighborhoods are heavy or light on residents with Irish ancestry.
The American Community Survey of 2007-2011 asked respondents whether they had ancestors from many particular countries or continental regions, and Ireland was on the list. (The ACS uses sampling, rather than contacting every resident as the decennial census does.)
Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties all were found to have more residents with Irish ancestry than the national average of 11.6 percent. About 17.8 percent of all Pennsylvania residents claimed Irish genes.
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The most Irish county in the area, Delaware County, also contained the two most Irish neighborhoods: Springfield and Havertown, both more than 40 percent "green".
See where your neighborhood ranks on the table below:
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