Oklahoma's Largest Ethnic Groups

German is Oklahoma's largest ethnic group, the ancestry of 14% of residents in 2010. The state also has a large Native American community, and Cherokee is Oklahoma's 7th largest ethnicity, the background of almost 100,000 residents.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Oklahoma Population	As a Percent of Total Oklahoma Population
	Total Population	3,761,702	100.00%
1	German	549,331	14.60%
2	Irish	473,623	12.59%
3	American	360,353	9.58%
4	English	307,961	8.19%
5	Mexican	279,839	7.44%
6	African-American*	227,692	6.05%
7	Cherokee	98,735	2.62%
8	French, except Basque	77,179	2.05%
9	Dutch	77,101	2.05%
10	European	72,074	1.92%
11	Scottish	67,244	1.79%
12	Italian	65,642	1.75%
13	Scotch-Irish	43,316	1.15%
14	Polish	32,024	0.85%
15	Swedish	28,126	0.75%
16	Norwegian	25,010	0.66%
17	Welsh	18,941	0.50%
18	Dutch West Indian	18,660	0.50%
19	Czech	18,456	0.49%
20	Vietnamese	15,893	0.42%
21	British	12,616	0.34%
22	Russian	12,367	0.33%
23	Asian Indian	12,027	0.32%
24	French Canadian	10,659	0.28%
25	Guatemalan	10,021	0.27%
26	African	9,719	0.26%
27	Swiss	9,463	0.25%
28	Puerto Rican	9,049	0.24%
29	Chinese, except Taiwanese	8,079	0.21%
30	Danish	7,900	0.21%
31	Filipino	6,109	0.16%
32	Lebanese	5,792	0.15%
33	Spaniard	5,735	0.15%
34	Greek	5,699	0.15%
35	Korean	5,361	0.14%
36	Iranian	5,218	0.14%
37	Hungarian	5,030	0.13%
38	Czechoslovakian	4,257	0.11%
39	Portuguese	3,993	0.11%
40	Spanish	3,676	0.10%
41	Scandinavian	3,591	0.10%
42	Ukrainian	3,489	0.09%
43	Salvadoran	3,443	0.09%
44	Canadian	3,252	0.09%
45	Honduran	2,831	0.08%
46	Peruvian	2,704	0.07%
47	Thai	2,440	0.06%
48	Laotian	2,425	0.06%
49	Finnish	2,381	0.06%
50	Austrian	2,335	0.06%

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.