Oregon's Largest Ethnic Groups

Oregon's largest ethnic group is German. One in five state residents claimed German ancestry in 2010.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Oregon Population	As a Percent of Total Oregon Population
	Total Population	3,838,957	100.00%
1	German	779,347	20.30%
2	Irish	484,663	12.62%
3	English	458,765	11.95%
4	Mexican	384,133	10.01%
5	American	192,306	5.01%
6	Italian	148,681	3.87%
7	Norwegian	146,197	3.81%
8	French, except Basque	127,996	3.33%
9	Scottish	117,861	3.07%
10	Swedish	110,330	2.87%
11	European	94,238	2.45%
12	Dutch	90,850	2.37%
13	Polish	59,350	1.55%
14	Scotch-Irish	59,047	1.54%
15	Russian	52,284	1.36%
16	African-American*	43,505	1.13%
17	Danish	40,289	1.05%
18	Welsh	38,876	1.01%
19	Chinese, except Taiwanese	32,154	0.84%
20	Vietnamese	29,552	0.77%
21	Swiss	29,506	0.77%
22	French Canadian	28,498	0.74%
23	Scandinavian	24,580	0.64%
24	British	23,102	0.60%
25	Ukrainian	22,270	0.58%
26	Portuguese	22,202	0.58%
27	Finnish	21,612	0.56%
28	Czech	18,934	0.49%
29	Filipino	18,405	0.48%
30	Canadian	16,316	0.43%
31	Hungarian	15,387	0.40%
32	Greek	14,323	0.37%
33	Asian Indian	13,378	0.35%
34	Korean	13,358	0.35%
35	Japanese	12,049	0.31%
36	African	12,000	0.31%
37	Romanian	11,228	0.29%
38	Northern European	10,817	0.28%
39	Puerto Rican	10,500	0.27%
40	Austrian	10,346	0.27%
41	Spaniard	9,211	0.24%
42	Guatemalan	8,438	0.22%
43	Spanish	6,947	0.18%
44	Salvadoran	6,617	0.17%
45	Eastern European	6,188	0.16%
46	Belgian	5,866	0.15%
47	Czechoslovakian	5,565	0.14%
48	Cuban	5,528	0.14%
49	Cherokee	5,440	0.14%
50	Croatian	5,419	0.14%

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.