Maryland's Largest Ethnic Groups

African-Americans are the largest ethnic group in Maryland, making up 1 in 4 residents in 2010. Salvadoreans are the state's 8th largest ethnicity, with a large community based in the suburbs outside Washington D.C.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Maryland Population	As a Percent of Total Maryland Population
	Total Population	5,785,982	100.00%
1	African-American*	1,440,921	24.90%
2	German	904,044	15.62%
3	Irish	683,240	11.81%
4	English	470,933	8.14%
5	Italian	301,497	5.21%
6	American	257,149	4.44%
7	Polish	201,221	3.48%
8	Salvadoran	155,230	2.68%
9	French, except Basque	104,211	1.80%
10	Scottish	96,953	1.68%
11	African	90,406	1.56%
12	Russian	84,046	1.45%
13	Mexican	82,306	1.42%
14	Asian Indian	77,776	1.34%
15	European	72,984	1.26%
16	Chinese, except Taiwanese	68,887	1.19%
17	Dutch	54,388	0.94%
18	Korean	47,950	0.83%
19	Filipino	46,699	0.81%
20	Scotch-Irish	44,065	0.76%
21	Welsh	42,227	0.73%
22	Puerto Rican	40,223	0.70%
23	Swedish	35,249	0.61%
24	Guatemalan	35,188	0.61%
25	Greek	34,956	0.60%
26	Jamaican	28,995	0.50%
27	Norwegian	28,617	0.49%
28	Honduran	26,778	0.46%
29	Hungarian	26,340	0.46%
30	British	25,794	0.45%
31	Vietnamese	25,303	0.44%
32	Ethiopian	23,248	0.40%
33	Nigerian	22,594	0.39%
34	Czech	22,485	0.39%
35	Ukrainian	21,053	0.36%
36	Eastern European	19,864	0.34%
37	Peruvian	19,027	0.33%
38	American Indian or Alaska Native	18,928	0.33%
39	French Canadian	18,476	0.32%
40	Lithuanian	16,803	0.29%
41	Iranian	16,313	0.28%
42	Austrian	14,672	0.25%
43	Dominican (Dominican Republic)	13,844	0.24%
44	Slovak	13,668	0.24%
45	Danish	13,271	0.23%
46	Pakistani	13,228	0.23%
47	Swiss	12,822	0.22%
48	Haitian	12,148	0.21%
49	Colombian	12,003	0.21%
50	Cuban	11,109	0.19%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, B02006, B03001, B03002, B04006

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