Hawaii's Largest Ethnic Groups

There are almost 200,000 Filipinos living in Hawaii, making it the state's largest ethnic group. Native Hawaiians form the state's 5th largest ethnicity, with a population of over 75,000.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Hawaii Population	As a Percent of Total Hawaii Population
	Total Population	1,363,621	100.00%
1	Filipino	199,957	14.66%
2	Japanese	186,167	13.65%
3	German	87,046	6.38%
4	Native Hawaiian	75,430	5.53%
5	Irish	63,022	4.62%
6	Chinese, except Taiwanese	59,323	4.35%
7	Portuguese	55,420	4.06%
8	English	52,430	3.84%
9	Puerto Rican	42,650	3.13%
10	Mexican	38,473	2.82%
11	Italian	28,349	2.08%
12	Korean	24,872	1.82%
13	Other Micronesian	23,793	1.74%
14	French, except Basque	22,182	1.63%
15	Samoan	20,474	1.50%
16	Spanish	18,800	1.38%
17	African-American*	15,141	1.11%
18	Polish	13,750	1.01%
19	Scottish	13,584	1.00%
20	Norwegian	11,336	0.83%
21	European	11,115	0.82%
22	American	10,606	0.78%
23	Vietnamese	9,998	0.73%
24	Swedish	9,187	0.67%
25	Dutch	8,861	0.65%
26	Spaniard	7,205	0.53%
27	Scotch-Irish	5,929	0.43%
28	Welsh	4,558	0.33%
29	Danish	4,527	0.33%
30	Russian	4,110	0.30%
31	British	3,760	0.28%
32	Tongan	3,543	0.26%
33	Swiss	3,529	0.26%
34	Laotian	3,232	0.24%
35	French Canadian	2,940	0.22%
36	Asian Indian	2,824	0.21%
37	Guamanian or Chamorro	2,568	0.19%
38	Greek	2,304	0.17%
39	Czech	2,138	0.16%
40	Arab	2,076	0.15%
41	West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	1,944	0.14%
42	Subsaharan African	1,925	0.14%
43	Hungarian	1,877	0.14%
44	Colombian	1,360	0.10%
45	Salvadoran	1,286	0.09%
46	Cuban	1,269	0.09%
47	Lithuanian	1,209	0.09%
48	Guatemalan	1,081	0.08%
49	Taiwanese	1,036	0.08%
50	Peruvian	1,020	0.07%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, C02005, B02006, B02007, B03001, B03002, C04006

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