only) -2.03% 7.84% 2.72% 22.74% 14.37% Growth 2000-2005 (Hispanic only) 18.51% 19.43% 11.24% 13.47% 10.30% The five largest reported ancestries in Massachusetts are: Irish (23.5%), Italian (13.5%), French/French Canadian (or Franco-American ) (12.9%), English (11.4%), German (5.9%). Massachusetts also has large communities of people of Finnish (Fitchburg/Gardner) and Swedish descent; Armenian,