Baltimore Ethnicity

In light of last week's Baltimore riots we take a look at ethnicity in the city.

The vast majority of residents are African-American. Despite its position as a port city, Baltimore has failed to attract a substantial number of immigrants. While the United States has seen dramatic increases in immigration from Asia and Latin America, Baltimore still has a negligible population of residents from those areas. Even as a Black majority city, Baltimore has few immigrants from the West Indies or Africa. The city still has a large population of ethnic whites, with German-Americans and Irish-Americans making up the largest European groups.

Rank	Ethnicity	Baltimore, MD Population	As a Percent of Total Baltimore Population
	Total Population	620,538	100.00%
1	African-American*	373,339	60.2%
2	German	45,906	7.4%
3	Irish	39,501	6.4%
4	American	27,486	4.4%
5	English	23,236	3.7%
6	Italian	18,894	3.0%
7	Polish	15,080	2.4%
8	African	11,210	1.8%
9	Mexican	8,473	1.4%
10	Russian	6,362	1.0%
11	French (except Basque)	5,463	0.9%
12	Scottish	4,773	0.8%
13	Scotch-Irish	4,103	0.7%
14	Jamaican	4,029	0.6%
15	Chinese , except Taiwanese	3,644	0.6%
16	Asian Indian	3,036	0.5%
17	European	3,008	0.5%
18	Puerto Rican	2,789	0.4%
19	Dutch	2,727	0.4%
20	Greek	2,621	0.4%
21	Salvadoran	2,291	0.4%
22	Hungarian	2,050	0.3%
23	Taiwanese	2,011	0.3%
24	Japanese	2,005	0.3%
25	Welsh	1,970	0.3%
26	Nigerian	1,814	0.3%
27	Swedish	1,775	0.3%
28	Lithuanian	1,693	0.3%
29	Czech	1,668	0.3%
30	British	1,646	0.3%
31	Ukrainian	1,608	0.3%
32	Honduran	1,564	0.3%
33	Trinidadian and Tobagonian	1,502	0.2%
34	Eastern European	1,371	0.2%
35	Norwegian	1,303	0.2%
36	West Indian	1,033	0.2%
37	Austrian	1,016	0.2%
38	Cuban	1,008	0.2%
39	Ethiopian	965	0.2%
40	Haitian	953	0.2%
41	Ecuadorian	887	0.1%
42	French Canadian	877	0.1%
43	Guatemalan	862	0.1%
44	Iranian	788	0.1%
45	Argentinean	712	0.1%
46	Peruvian	670	0.1%
47	Swiss	660	0.1%
48	Romanian	634	0.1%
49	Portuguese	600	0.1%
50	Dominican (Dominican Republic)	596	0.1%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

5 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.