Missouri's Largest Ethnic Groups

German-Americans are Missouri's largest ethnic group, with German being the background of 1 in 4 residents in 2010:

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Missouri Population	As a Percent of Total Missouri Population
	Total Population	5,996,231	100.00%
1	German	1,536,789	25.63%
2	Irish	830,534	13.85%
3	African-American*	659,129	10.99%
4	American	596,813	9.95%
5	English	593,402	9.90%
6	Italian	209,177	3.49%
7	French, except Basque	202,973	3.39%
8	Mexican	153,245	2.56%
9	Dutch	105,785	1.76%
10	Scottish	104,840	1.75%
11	Polish	100,335	1.67%
12	Scotch-Irish	74,137	1.24%
13	European	69,038	1.15%
14	Swedish	60,419	1.01%
15	Norwegian	42,064	0.70%
16	Welsh	38,281	0.64%
17	Russian	33,146	0.55%
18	Czech	28,233	0.47%
19	Swiss	24,924	0.42%
20	Asian Indian	22,693	0.38%
21	Danish	21,788	0.36%
22	Chinese, except Taiwanese	20,962	0.35%
23	Yugoslavian	17,230	0.29%
24	British	17,124	0.29%
25	African	16,256	0.27%
26	Greek	16,065	0.27%
27	Hungarian	13,842	0.23%
28	French Canadian	13,121	0.22%
29	Vietnamese	12,943	0.22%
30	Puerto Rican	11,684	0.19%
31	Austrian	11,269	0.19%
32	Filipino	9,899	0.17%
33	Korean	8,891	0.15%
34	Croatian	8,814	0.15%
35	Ukrainian	8,476	0.14%
36	Spaniard	8,095	0.14%
37	Scandinavian	7,216	0.12%
38	Cherokee	6,862	0.11%
39	Belgian	6,858	0.11%
40	Finnish	6,528	0.11%
41	Canadian	6,315	0.11%
42	Guatemalan	6,117	0.10%
43	Portuguese	6,061	0.10%
44	Arab	5,795	0.10%
45	Czechoslovakian	5,720	0.10%
46	Cuban	5,698	0.10%
47	Romanian	5,183	0.09%
48	Eastern European	5,049	0.08%
49	Northern European	4,998	0.08%
50	Slovak	4,697	0.08%

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.