Michigan's Largest Ethnic Groups

Michigan has a significant Arab community, as seen by the large population of Lebanese, Iraqi, and other Arab nationalities. German-Americans are the state's largest ethnic group, over 21% of the population.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Michigan Population	As a Percent of Total Michigan Population
	Total Population	9,877,574	100.00%
1	German	2,144,855	21.71%
2	African-American*	1,304,239	13.20%
3	Irish	1,151,178	11.65%
4	English	965,111	9.77%
5	Polish	867,260	8.78%
6	American	501,331	5.08%
7	French, except Basque	482,780	4.89%
8	Dutch	481,878	4.88%
9	Italian	451,397	4.57%
10	Mexican	329,910	3.34%
11	Scottish	227,372	2.30%
12	French Canadian	162,407	1.64%
13	Swedish	157,691	1.60%
14	Finnish	108,028	1.09%
15	Hungarian	99,942	1.01%
16	European	98,438	1.00%
17	Norwegian	78,918	0.80%
18	Scotch-Irish	78,830	0.80%
19	Asian Indian	78,817	0.80%
20	Russian	69,886	0.71%
21	Lebanese	57,793	0.59%
22	Belgian	53,377	0.54%
23	Canadian	49,876	0.50%
24	Czech	49,810	0.50%
25	Greek	47,336	0.48%
26	Welsh	45,234	0.46%
27	Chinese, except Taiwanese	41,492	0.42%
28	African	39,497	0.40%
29	Ukrainian	38,416	0.39%
30	Puerto Rican	37,829	0.38%
31	Danish	37,564	0.38%
32	Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac	37,340	0.38%
33	Arab	35,277	0.36%
34	Romanian	29,915	0.30%
35	British	28,767	0.29%
36	Lithuanian	28,378	0.29%
37	Slovak	26,969	0.27%
38	Filipino	24,299	0.25%
39	Iraqi	23,839	0.24%
40	Korean	23,664	0.24%
41	Chippewa	22,878	0.23%
42	Austrian	22,598	0.23%
43	Swiss	22,472	0.23%
44	Yugoslavian	21,258	0.22%
45	Croatian	21,094	0.21%
46	Albanian	19,936	0.20%
47	Vietnamese	16,979	0.17%
48	Armenian	16,306	0.17%
49	Czechoslovakian	13,949	0.14%
50	Scandinavian	13,350	0.14%

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.