Utah's Largest Ethnic Groups

Utah is just one of three American states where English is the largest ethnic group, the others being Maine and Vermont. Over 1 in 4 Utah residents claimed English heritage in 2010.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Utah Population	As a Percent of Total Utah Population
	Total Population	2,776,469	100.00%
1	English	712,373	25.66%
2	German	326,278	11.75%
3	Mexican	279,648	10.07%
4	Irish	166,102	5.98%
5	American	155,681	5.61%
6	Danish	154,318	5.56%
7	Scottish	128,678	4.63%
8	European	126,815	4.57%
9	Swedish	108,335	3.90%
10	Italian	74,159	2.67%
11	Dutch	70,028	2.52%
12	Norwegian	67,955	2.45%
13	Welsh	57,205	2.06%
14	French, except Basque	51,807	1.87%
15	British	34,620	1.25%
16	Scandinavian	34,339	1.24%
17	Swiss	33,422	1.20%
18	Polish	25,146	0.91%
19	Navajo	19,434	0.70%
20	Scotch-Irish	17,186	0.62%
21	African-American*	15,885	0.57%
22	Greek	12,997	0.47%
23	Samoan	12,069	0.43%
24	Canadian	10,978	0.40%
25	Chinese, except Taiwanese	10,904	0.39%
26	Salvadoran	9,655	0.35%
27	Russian	9,472	0.34%
28	Spaniard	9,264	0.33%
29	Peruvian	8,293	0.30%
30	Spanish	8,231	0.30%
31	Czech	7,557	0.27%
32	Tongan	7,178	0.26%
33	Argentinean	7,058	0.25%
34	Puerto Rican	6,956	0.25%
35	Vietnamese	6,742	0.24%
36	Korean	6,670	0.24%
37	Asian Indian	6,407	0.23%
38	Japanese	6,349	0.23%
39	Northern European	6,233	0.22%
40	Austrian	5,999	0.22%
41	Yugoslavian	5,745	0.21%
42	French Canadian	5,395	0.19%
43	Guatemalan	5,348	0.19%
44	Brazilian	5,179	0.19%
45	Finnish	5,055	0.18%
46	Filipino	4,093	0.15%
47	Icelander	3,784	0.14%
48	Portuguese	3,616	0.13%
49	Somalian	3,584	0.13%
50	Ukrainian	3,551	0.13%

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.