Irish , 10.9% Polish , 10.2% Italian , 9.6% French , 7.5% French Canadian and 5.6% English ancestry according to Census 2000 . 77.9% spoke English , 13.0% Spanish , 1.8% Polish , 1.6% French , 1.4% Portuguese and 1.0% Russian as their first language. There were 175,288 households out of