Arkansas' Largest Ethnic Groups

African-Americans were Arkansas' largest ethnic group in the 2010 American Community Survey.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Arkansas Population	As a Percent of Total Arkansas Population
	Total Population	2,921,606	100.00%
1	African-American*	449,585	15.39%
2	Irish	365,875	12.52%
3	German	327,754	11.22%
4	American	317,687	10.87%
5	English	287,269	9.83%
6	Mexican	138,281	4.73%
7	French, except Basque	60,293	2.06%
8	Dutch	50,387	1.72%
9	Scottish	47,744	1.63%
10	Italian	47,446	1.62%
11	Scotch-Irish	38,109	1.30%
12	European	25,080	0.86%
13	Polish	22,717	0.78%
14	Swedish	17,472	0.60%
15	Salvadoran	15,172	0.52%
16	Norwegian	12,446	0.43%
17	Welsh	12,338	0.42%
18	Cherokee	8,093	0.28%
19	British	7,840	0.27%
20	African	6,194	0.21%
21	Puerto Rican	5,540	0.19%
22	Vietnamese	5,515	0.19%
23	Russian	5,485	0.19%
24	French Canadian	5,434	0.19%
25	Czech	5,397	0.18%
26	Asian Indian	5,326	0.18%
27	Laotian	5,273	0.18%
28	Guatemalan	5,176	0.18%
29	Danish	5,142	0.18%
30	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	5,090	0.17%
31	Swiss	5,037	0.17%
32	Hungarian	4,983	0.17%
33	Filipino	4,418	0.15%
34	Honduran	4,108	0.14%
35	Hmong	3,885	0.13%
36	Greek	3,490	0.12%
37	Dutch West Indian	3,357	0.11%
38	Chinese, except Taiwanese	3,306	0.11%
39	Austrian	3,010	0.10%
40	Czechoslovakian	2,775	0.09%
41	Portuguese	2,754	0.09%
42	Spaniard	2,514	0.09%
43	Scandinavian	2,300	0.08%
44	Finnish	1,941	0.07%
45	Romanian	1,829	0.06%
46	Canadian	1,714	0.06%
47	Nicaraguan	1,665	0.06%
48	Lebanese	1,663	0.06%
49	Croatian	1,517	0.05%
50	Korean	1,405	0.05%

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.