Gerogia's Largest Ethnic Groups

As with many states in the deep South, Georgia has a large population that does not belong to immigrant ethnic groups. African-American is the state's largest ethnicity at 27% of the population, and over 10% of residents list their background as simply American.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Georgia Population	As a Percent of Total Georgia Population
	Total Population	9,712,587	100.00%
1	African-American*	2,656,944	27.36%
2	American	1,042,505	10.73%
3	English	821,124	8.45%
4	Irish	803,004	8.27%
5	German	714,369	7.36%
6	Mexican	537,842	5.54%
7	Italian	213,953	2.20%
8	Scottish	177,199	1.82%
9	French, except Basque	141,435	1.46%
10	Scotch-Irish	124,186	1.28%
11	African	118,781	1.22%
12	Polish	100,954	1.04%
13	European	100,670	1.04%
14	Asian Indian	94,474	0.97%
15	Dutch	83,082	0.86%
16	Puerto Rican	73,507	0.76%
17	Korean	53,817	0.55%
18	Jamaican	53,603	0.55%
19	Vietnamese	52,603	0.54%
20	Chinese, except Taiwanese	42,326	0.44%
21	Russian	41,733	0.43%
22	Salvadoran	41,632	0.43%
23	Swedish	40,814	0.42%
24	British	40,350	0.42%
25	Guatemalan	38,238	0.39%
26	Welsh	38,145	0.39%
27	Norwegian	35,817	0.37%
28	Nigerian	28,763	0.30%
29	Colombian	26,193	0.27%
30	French Canadian	24,392	0.25%
31	Cuban	24,265	0.25%
32	Greek	22,068	0.23%
33	Dominican (Dominican Republic)	20,824	0.21%
34	Haitian	20,782	0.21%
35	Honduran	18,397	0.19%
36	Hungarian	17,403	0.18%
37	Filipino	17,112	0.18%
38	Czech	14,836	0.15%
39	Ukrainian	14,310	0.15%
40	West Indian	13,765	0.14%
41	Danish	13,407	0.14%
42	Canadian	12,481	0.13%
43	Ethiopian	11,739	0.12%
44	Austrian	11,563	0.12%
45	Portuguese	11,108	0.11%
46	Swiss	10,833	0.11%
47	Trinidadian and Tobagonian	10,759	0.11%
48	Lebanese	10,754	0.11%
49	Yugoslavian	10,339	0.11%
50	Romanian	10,066	0.10%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, C02005, B02006, C02007, B03001, B03002, B04006

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