North Carolina's Largest Ethnic Groups

African-American is the largest ethnicity in North Carolina, the background of 1 in 5 residents in 2010.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 North Carolina Population	As a Percent of Total North Carolina Population
	Total Population	9,561,558	100.00%
1	African-American*	1,905,962	19.93%
2	American	1,109,520	11.60%
3	German	1,043,990	10.92%
4	English	957,086	10.01%
5	Irish	869,820	9.10%
6	Mexican	498,519	5.21%
7	Italian	281,277	2.94%
8	Scotch-Irish	274,149	2.87%
9	Scottish	245,021	2.56%
10	French, except Basque	164,954	1.73%
11	Polish	123,281	1.29%
12	European	111,540	1.17%
13	Dutch	111,095	1.16%
14	Puerto Rican	74,702	0.78%
15	African	59,165	0.62%
16	Asian Indian	53,088	0.56%
17	Welsh	52,532	0.55%
18	Swedish	51,856	0.54%
19	Norwegian	45,607	0.48%
20	British	43,299	0.45%
21	Russian	42,385	0.44%
22	Salvadoran	40,884	0.43%
23	Honduran	35,649	0.37%
24	Chinese, except Taiwanese	32,205	0.34%
25	French Canadian	32,051	0.34%
26	Vietnamese	27,162	0.28%
27	Hungarian	27,028	0.28%
28	Greek	25,756	0.27%
29	Korean	23,195	0.24%
30	Guatemalan	21,263	0.22%
31	Colombian	20,597	0.22%
32	Cuban	20,151	0.21%
33	Filipino	19,264	0.20%
34	Cherokee	18,741	0.20%
35	Czech	18,158	0.19%
36	Swiss	17,536	0.18%
37	Ukrainian	16,149	0.17%
38	Danish	15,541	0.16%
39	Dominican (Dominican Republic)	15,013	0.16%
40	Canadian	14,302	0.15%
41	Ecuadorian	14,227	0.15%
42	Portuguese	14,052	0.15%
43	Jamaican	12,176	0.13%
44	Lebanese	12,089	0.13%
45	Hmong	11,166	0.12%
46	Slovak	10,400	0.11%
47	Austrian	10,291	0.11%
48	Laotian	9,448	0.10%
49	Romanian	9,414	0.10%
50	Lithuanian	9,223	0.10%

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.