Washington's Largest Ethnic Groups

German-American is the largest ethnicity in the state of Washington, the ancestry of almost 1 in 5 residents:

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Washington Population	As a Percent of Total Washington Population
	Total Population	6,744,496	100.00%
1	German	1,311,161	19.44%
2	Irish	785,664	11.65%
3	English	751,471	11.14%
4	Mexican	625,370	9.27%
5	Norwegian	371,901	5.51%
6	American	309,150	4.58%
7	Italian	245,897	3.65%
8	French, except Basque	239,148	3.55%
9	Swedish	229,241	3.40%
10	Scottish	200,085	2.97%
11	African-American*	165,259	2.45%
12	European	157,061	2.33%
13	Dutch	156,109	2.31%
14	Polish	129,037	1.91%
15	Scotch-Irish	93,747	1.39%
16	Filipino	90,824	1.35%
17	Chinese, except Taiwanese	87,106	1.29%
18	Russian	85,196	1.26%
19	Danish	70,753	1.05%
20	Vietnamese	68,998	1.02%
21	Welsh	66,315	0.98%
22	Korean	63,689	0.94%
23	Asian Indian	57,306	0.85%
24	Ukrainian	55,698	0.83%
25	French Canadian	53,435	0.79%
26	Scandinavian	49,018	0.73%
27	Finnish	43,673	0.65%
28	British	42,472	0.63%
29	Swiss	36,422	0.54%
30	Canadian	35,920	0.53%
31	Japanese	35,013	0.52%
32	Czech	29,168	0.43%
33	Puerto Rican	28,298	0.42%
34	Northern European	25,475	0.38%
35	Cambodian	24,123	0.36%
36	Hungarian	23,416	0.35%
37	Greek	22,455	0.33%
38	Portuguese	22,440	0.33%
39	Austrian	20,580	0.31%
40	African	16,759	0.25%
41	Samoan	15,294	0.23%
42	Romanian	15,293	0.23%
43	Spaniard	15,065	0.22%
44	Ethiopian	14,632	0.22%
45	Croatian	13,576	0.20%
46	Spanish	13,415	0.20%
47	Yugoslavian	13,368	0.20%
48	Guatemalan	11,818	0.18%
49	Somalian	11,234	0.17%
50	Salvadoran	11,089	0.16%

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.