Nebraksa's Largest Ethnic Groups

Germans are by far Nebraska's largest ethnic group. Almost 40% of state residents have a German background, more than twice the percentage of the next largest ethnicity.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Nebraska Population	As a Percent of Total Nebraska Population
	Total Population	1,830,429	100.00%
1	German	721,504	39.42%
2	Irish	256,551	14.02%
3	English	168,590	9.21%
4	Mexican	130,121	7.11%
5	Czech	91,838	5.02%
6	Swedish	87,106	4.76%
7	American	79,648	4.35%
8	African-American*	63,971	3.49%
9	Polish	63,840	3.49%
10	Danish	50,328	2.75%
11	Italian	49,825	2.72%
12	French, except Basque	46,931	2.56%
13	Norwegian	37,264	2.04%
14	Dutch	36,178	1.98%
15	Scottish	23,653	1.29%
16	European	18,494	1.01%
17	Scotch-Irish	16,951	0.93%
18	Welsh	12,958	0.71%
19	Russian	11,982	0.65%
20	Salvadoran	10,772	0.59%
21	Guatemalan	8,601	0.47%
22	Swiss	7,827	0.43%
23	Vietnamese	6,976	0.38%
24	African	6,693	0.37%
25	Asian Indian	6,093	0.33%
26	Czechoslovakian	5,750	0.31%
27	French Canadian	5,193	0.28%
28	Chinese, including Taiwanese	5,045	0.28%
29	Puerto Rican	4,991	0.27%
30	Scandinavian	4,660	0.25%
31	British	4,227	0.23%
32	Sioux	4,014	0.22%
33	Korean	3,579	0.20%
34	Sudanese	3,454	0.19%
35	Austrian	3,320	0.18%
36	Greek	3,077	0.17%
37	Hungarian	3,040	0.17%
38	Iraqi	2,888	0.16%
39	Lithuanian	2,597	0.14%
40	Filipino	2,391	0.13%
41	Spaniard	2,365	0.13%
42	Somalian	2,283	0.12%
43	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	2,257	0.12%
44	Croatian	2,151	0.12%
45	Finnish	2,005	0.11%
46	Ukrainian	1,815	0.10%
47	Belgian	1,813	0.10%
48	Honduran	1,639	0.09%
49	Canadian	1,636	0.09%
50	Northern European	1,558	0.09%

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.