Ohio's Largest Ethnic Groups

German is the largest ethnic group in Ohio. Over 1 in 4 Ohio residents had German roots in 2010:

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Ohio Population	As a Percent of Total Ohio Population
	Total Population	11,536,182	100.00%
1	German	3,052,015	26.46%
2	Irish	1,625,166	14.09%
3	African-American*	1,281,363	11.11%
4	English	1,041,292	9.03%
5	American	914,236	7.92%
6	Italian	735,980	6.38%
7	Polish	442,936	3.84%
8	French, except Basque	253,999	2.20%
9	Scottish	214,649	1.86%
10	Hungarian	193,512	1.68%
11	Dutch	186,998	1.62%
12	Mexican	183,782	1.59%
13	Slovak	137,343	1.19%
14	Welsh	126,572	1.10%
15	Scotch-Irish	123,572	1.07%
16	European	108,358	0.94%
17	Puerto Rican	88,725	0.77%
18	Swiss	79,848	0.69%
19	Russian	77,054	0.67%
20	Swedish	74,989	0.65%
21	Czech	69,445	0.60%
22	Asian Indian	67,548	0.59%
23	African	60,468	0.52%
24	Greek	53,547	0.46%
25	Slovene	49,874	0.43%
26	Chinese, except Taiwanese	44,373	0.38%
27	Ukrainian	44,191	0.38%
28	Norwegian	41,360	0.36%
29	Croatian	40,042	0.35%
30	British	39,286	0.34%
31	Pennsylvania German	35,296	0.31%
32	French Canadian	30,273	0.26%
33	Lebanese	29,465	0.26%
34	Romanian	27,033	0.23%
35	Austrian	26,329	0.23%
36	Lithuanian	23,470	0.20%
37	Serbian	19,963	0.17%
38	Czechoslovakian	18,319	0.16%
39	Filipino	18,269	0.16%
40	Finnish	18,080	0.16%
41	Korean	16,269	0.14%
42	Somalian	15,131	0.13%
43	Canadian	14,480	0.13%
44	Eastern European	14,415	0.12%
45	Danish	14,341	0.12%
46	Guatemalan	12,700	0.11%
47	Vietnamese	12,632	0.11%
48	Yugoslavian	12,168	0.11%
49	Japanese	10,319	0.09%
50	Portuguese	9,918	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.