West Virginia's Largest Ethnic Groups

German is the largest ethnic group in West Virginia, the ancestry of 18% of state residents in 2010.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 West Virginia Population	As a Percent of Total West Virginia Population
	Total Population	1,853,973	100.00%
1	German	335,477	18.10%
2	Irish	267,713	14.44%
3	American	232,119	12.52%
4	English	205,530	11.09%
5	Italian	85,848	4.63%
6	African-American*	50,073	2.70%
7	Dutch	45,323	2.44%
8	Scottish	42,349	2.28%
9	Scotch-Irish	39,648	2.14%
10	Polish	34,292	1.85%
11	French, except Basque	29,068	1.57%
12	European	14,793	0.80%
13	Welsh	13,637	0.74%
14	Hungarian	11,106	0.60%
15	Mexican	9,413	0.51%
16	Swedish	6,984	0.38%
17	Russian	6,622	0.36%
18	Greek	5,450	0.29%
19	Slovak	4,348	0.23%
20	Other Hispanic or Latino	4,324	0.23%
21	African	4,093	0.22%
22	British	3,955	0.21%
23	Czech	3,455	0.19%
24	Swiss	3,370	0.18%
25	Norwegian	3,357	0.18%
26	French Canadian	3,354	0.18%
27	Chinese, including Taiwanese	3,335	0.18%
28	Central American	3,269	0.18%
29	Lebanese	3,124	0.17%
30	American Indian or Alaska Native	3,094	0.17%
31	Puerto Rican	2,950	0.16%
32	Ukrainian	2,283	0.12%
33	Austrian	2,152	0.12%
34	Canadian	2,129	0.11%
35	Lithuanian	2,110	0.11%
36	Filipino	2,042	0.11%
37	Belgian	1,791	0.10%
38	Czechoslovakian	1,767	0.10%
39	Slavic	1,723	0.09%
40	Serbian	1,465	0.08%
41	Croatian	1,436	0.08%
42	Vietnamese	1,400	0.08%
43	South American	1,361	0.07%
44	Danish	1,306	0.07%
45	Asian Indian	994	0.05%
46	Finnish	937	0.05%
47	Korean	924	0.05%
48	Scandinavian	868	0.05%
49	Egyptian	807	0.04%
50	Yugoslavian	759	0.04%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, C02005, C02006, C02007, C03001, B03002, B04006

* African-American is derived as respondents selecting Black as racial group after removing African, West Indian, and Hispanic ethnicities.