New Jersey's Largest Ethnic Groups

New Jersey is home to Ellis Island, and the legacy of immigration shows in the diversity of the state's population. Italian- Americans dominate: 17% of the state's population has roots in Italy.   

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 New Jersey Population	As a Percent of Total New Jersey Population
	Total Population	8,801,624	100.00%
1	Italian	1,491,879	16.95%
2	Irish	1,335,209	15.17%
3	German	1,008,500	11.46%
4	African-American*	900,463	10.23%
5	Polish	539,598	6.13%
6	English	469,796	5.34%
7	Puerto Rican	430,863	4.90%
8	American	309,491	3.52%
9	Asian Indian	299,397	3.40%
10	Mexican	223,062	2.53%
11	Dominican (Dominican Republic)	204,699	2.33%
12	Russian	186,602	2.12%
13	Ecuadorian	127,845	1.45%
14	Chinese, except Taiwanese	127,345	1.45%
15	French, except Basque	124,391	1.41%
16	Hungarian	108,620	1.23%
17	Colombian	102,734	1.17%
18	Dutch	102,379	1.16%
19	Korean	100,125	1.14%
20	Filipino	98,274	1.12%
21	Scottish	94,545	1.07%
22	Cuban	92,780	1.05%
23	Peruvian	89,649	1.02%
24	Portuguese	84,386	0.96%
25	Ukrainian	70,594	0.80%
26	European	66,330	0.75%
27	Greek	64,310	0.73%
28	Salvadoran	59,353	0.67%
29	Jamaican	55,351	0.63%
30	Swedish	54,479	0.62%
31	African	49,715	0.56%
32	Haitian	49,340	0.56%
33	Guatemalan	48,440	0.55%
34	Eastern European	45,522	0.52%
35	Norwegian	42,237	0.48%
36	Austrian	38,402	0.44%
37	Welsh	37,716	0.43%
38	Slovak	36,998	0.42%
39	Honduran	36,722	0.42%
40	Scotch-Irish	33,877	0.38%
41	Brazilian	33,419	0.38%
42	Czech	30,732	0.35%
43	Egyptian	29,889	0.34%
44	Lithuanian	28,051	0.32%
45	British	25,676	0.29%
46	Pakistani	24,574	0.28%
47	French Canadian	22,286	0.25%
48	Vietnamese	21,436	0.24%
49	Guyanese	21,364	0.24%
50	Spaniard	20,921	0.24%

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.