New Mexico's Largest Ethnic Groups

Bordering Mexico has a strong influence on New Mexico. It reflects in the state's very name, and Mexican-Americans form the New Mexico's largest ethnic group. Also noteworthy is the Navajo community: this Native American tribe is the state's 5th largest ethnicity.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 New Mexico Population	As a Percent of Total New Mexico Population
	Total Population	2,065,932	100.00%
1	Mexican	583,132	28.23%
2	German	198,444	9.61%
3	Irish	156,493	7.57%
4	English	151,036	7.31%
5	Navajo	113,122	5.48%
6	Spanish	93,164	4.51%
7	American	73,520	3.56%
8	Spaniard	63,535	3.08%
9	Italian	51,488	2.49%
10	French, except Basque	42,738	2.07%
11	Scottish	32,956	1.60%
12	African-American*	30,820	1.49%
13	Spanish American	29,618	1.43%
14	Dutch	22,953	1.11%
15	Polish	21,582	1.04%
16	Swedish	18,400	0.89%
17	European	18,132	0.88%
18	Scotch-Irish	17,586	0.85%
19	Norwegian	17,444	0.84%
20	Welsh	8,693	0.42%
21	Russian	8,564	0.41%
22	British	6,975	0.34%
23	Puerto Rican	6,776	0.33%
24	Danish	6,180	0.30%
25	French Canadian	6,165	0.30%
26	Vietnamese	5,002	0.24%
27	Czech	4,758	0.23%
28	Greek	4,227	0.20%
29	Chinese, except Taiwanese	4,126	0.20%
30	Scandinavian	3,912	0.19%
31	Filipino	3,822	0.19%
32	Swiss	3,724	0.18%
33	Hungarian	3,557	0.17%
34	Asian Indian	3,533	0.17%
35	Cuban	3,507	0.17%
36	Portuguese	3,144	0.15%
37	Lebanese	3,117	0.15%
38	Czechoslovakian	2,632	0.13%
39	Japanese	2,550	0.12%
40	Guatemalan	2,413	0.12%
41	Ukrainian	2,377	0.12%
42	Eastern European	2,337	0.11%
43	Cherokee	2,211	0.11%
44	Austrian	2,182	0.11%
45	Salvadoran	2,120	0.10%
46	Finnish	2,112	0.10%
47	Slovak	2,022	0.10%
48	Korean	2,016	0.10%
49	Croatian	1,930	0.09%
50	African	1,834	0.09%

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.