page_title: Bristol County, Massachusetts
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Bristol County, Massachusetts / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Largest self-reported ancestry groups in the six New England states. Data from 2000 census.
context_page_description: Bristol County is a county in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 548,285. The county seat is Taunton. Some governmental functions are performed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, others by the county, and others by local towns and cities. See administrative divisions of Massachusetts. The property deed records are kept in Taunton, Attleboro, Fall River, and New Bedford.
  Bristol County is part of the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area. The county is adjacent to the state of Rhode Island.
  The adjacent counties are Plymouth County, Norfolk County, Bristol County, Rhode Island, Newport County, Rhode Island, Providence County, Rhode Island, and Dukes County.
caption: Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England.  Americans of Portuguese descent plurality shown in grey.
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