Connecticut's Largest Ethnic Groups

Italian-Americans are the largest ethnic group in the Nutmeg State. Also notable are French Canadians, the 9th largest group, surely owing to the state's relative proximity to Quebec.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Connecticut Population	As a Percent of Total Connecticut Population
	Total Population	3,577,073	100.00%
1	Italian	668,124	18.68%
2	Irish	595,804	16.66%
3	German	349,656	9.77%
4	English	329,019	9.20%
5	Polish	301,935	8.44%
6	Puerto Rican	264,708	7.40%
7	African-American*	217,884	6.09%
8	French, except Basque	209,533	5.86%
9	French Canadian	99,934	2.79%
10	American	98,337	2.75%
11	Scottish	72,406	2.02%
12	Swedish	64,160	1.79%
13	Russian	63,903	1.79%
14	Jamaican	52,185	1.46%
15	Portuguese	50,069	1.40%
16	Mexican	45,071	1.26%
17	Asian Indian	38,832	1.09%
18	Hungarian	38,142	1.07%
19	Greek	33,047	0.92%
20	Dutch	31,719	0.89%
21	European	29,832	0.83%
22	Lithuanian	29,779	0.83%
23	Chinese, except Taiwanese	29,538	0.83%
24	Dominican (Dominican Republic)	28,242	0.79%
25	Ecuadorian	24,917	0.70%
26	Brazilian	22,096	0.62%
27	Scotch-Irish	21,927	0.61%
28	Norwegian	21,540	0.60%
29	Guatemalan	20,577	0.58%
30	Slovak	20,504	0.57%
31	Colombian	20,233	0.57%
32	African	19,580	0.55%
33	Peruvian	18,829	0.53%
34	Ukrainian	18,804	0.53%
35	Canadian	18,659	0.52%
36	Haitian	18,628	0.52%
37	British	15,742	0.44%
38	Welsh	15,216	0.43%
39	Czech	15,051	0.42%
40	Danish	14,424	0.40%
41	Eastern European	13,652	0.38%
42	Filipino	13,077	0.37%
43	Austrian	12,619	0.35%
44	Cuban	11,716	0.33%
45	Salvadoran	11,572	0.32%
46	Vietnamese	11,518	0.32%
47	Albanian	9,577	0.27%
48	Korean	9,484	0.27%
49	West Indian	9,092	0.25%
50	Swiss	8,577	0.24%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, B02006, B03001, B03002, B04006

* African-American is derived as respondents selecting Black as racial group after removing African, West Indian, and Hispanic ethnicities.