Mississippi's Largest Ethnic Groups

African-Americans are Mississippi's largest ethnic group. Mississippi also has the largest percentage of African-Americans of any state, at 36.7%.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Mississippi Population	As a Percent of Total Mississippi Population
	Total Population	2,970,036	100.00%
1	African-American*	1,090,398	36.71%
2	American	335,092	11.28%
3	Irish	263,081	8.86%
4	English	238,559	8.03%
5	German	172,070	5.79%
6	French, except Basque	79,899	2.69%
7	Italian	54,471	1.83%
8	Scotch-Irish	47,316	1.59%
9	Mexican	47,265	1.59%
10	Scottish	44,314	1.49%
11	Dutch	22,846	0.77%
12	European	19,648	0.66%
13	Polish	15,130	0.51%
14	American Indian or Alaska Native	12,478	0.42%
15	Subsaharan African	12,143	0.41%
16	Welsh	9,056	0.30%
17	Vietnamese	7,558	0.25%
18	Swedish	7,322	0.25%
19	French Canadian	7,065	0.24%
20	British	6,124	0.21%
21	Puerto Rican	5,543	0.19%
22	Russian	5,094	0.17%
23	Arab	4,994	0.17%
24	Chinese, including Taiwanese	4,836	0.16%
25	Norwegian	4,338	0.15%
26	Asian Indian	4,160	0.14%
27	Filipino	4,117	0.14%
28	Hungarian	4,036	0.14%
29	Danish	2,851	0.10%
30	Honduran	2,736	0.09%
31	Greek	2,665	0.09%
32	West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	2,640	0.09%
33	Korean	2,562	0.09%
34	Cuban	2,439	0.08%
35	Czech	2,420	0.08%
36	Spaniard	1,893	0.06%
37	Swiss	1,835	0.06%
38	Guatemalan	1,561	0.05%
39	Uruguayan	1,537	0.05%
40	Salvadoran	1,506	0.05%
41	Portuguese	1,064	0.04%
42	Spanish	1,000	0.03%
43	Ukrainian	956	0.03%
44	Panamanian	943	0.03%
45	Bolivian	821	0.03%
46	Slovak	721	0.02%
47	Colombian	624	0.02%
48	Peruvian	589	0.02%
49	Lithuanian	574	0.02%
50	Costa Rican	513	0.02%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, C02005, C02006, C02007, B03001, B03002, C04006

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