Friday, December 5, 2014

Washington's Largest Ethnic Groups


German-American is the largest ethnicity in the state of Washington, the ancestry of almost 1 in 5 residents:

Rank
Ethnicity
2010
Washington Population
As a Percent of
Total Washington Population

Total Population
6,744,496
100.00%
1
German 1,311,161 19.44%
2
Irish 785,664 11.65%
3
English 751,471 11.14%
4
Mexican 625,370 9.27%
5
Norwegian 371,901 5.51%
6
American 309,150 4.58%
7
Italian 245,897 3.65%
8
French, except Basque 239,148 3.55%
9
Swedish 229,241 3.40%
10
Scottish 200,085 2.97%
11
African-American* 165,259 2.45%
12
European 157,061 2.33%
13
Dutch 156,109 2.31%
14
Polish 129,037 1.91%
15
Scotch-Irish 93,747 1.39%
16
Filipino 90,824 1.35%
17
Chinese, except Taiwanese 87,106 1.29%
18
Russian 85,196 1.26%
19
Danish 70,753 1.05%
20
Vietnamese 68,998 1.02%
21
Welsh 66,315 0.98%
22
Korean 63,689 0.94%
23
Asian Indian 57,306 0.85%
24
Ukrainian 55,698 0.83%
25
French Canadian 53,435 0.79%
26
Scandinavian 49,018 0.73%
27
Finnish 43,673 0.65%
28
British 42,472 0.63%
29
Swiss 36,422 0.54%
30
Canadian 35,920 0.53%
31
Japanese 35,013 0.52%
32
Czech 29,168 0.43%
33
Puerto Rican 28,298 0.42%
34
Northern European 25,475 0.38%
35
Cambodian 24,123 0.36%
36
Hungarian 23,416 0.35%
37
Greek 22,455 0.33%
38
Portuguese 22,440 0.33%
39
Austrian 20,580 0.31%
40
African 16,759 0.25%
41
Samoan 15,294 0.23%
42
Romanian 15,293 0.23%
43
Spaniard 15,065 0.22%
44
Ethiopian 14,632 0.22%
45
Croatian 13,576 0.20%
46
Spanish 13,415 0.20%
47
Yugoslavian 13,368 0.20%
48
Guatemalan 11,818 0.18%
49
Somalian 11,234 0.17%
50
Salvadoran 11,089 0.16%


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.

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