Alabama's Largest Ethnic Groups

The largest ethnic group in Alabama in 2010 was African-American. Also notable for Alabama is the high number of respondents listing just "American" as their ethnicity, versus an immigrant ethnic heritage.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Alabama Population	As a Percent of Total Alabama Population
	Total Population	4,785,298	100.0%
1	African-American*	1,212,076	25.33%
2	American	660,698	13.81%
3	Irish	467,002	9.76%
4	English	418,961	8.76%
5	German	338,979	7.08%
6	Mexican	127,157	2.66%
7	Scottish	97,784	2.04%
8	French, except Basque	91,804	1.92%
9	Italian	81,993	1.71%
10	Scotch-Irish	75,353	1.57%
11	Dutch	49,685	1.04%
12	European	39,744	0.83%
13	Polish	32,003	0.67%
14	African	30,336	0.63%
15	Total:	27,768	0.58%
16	Welsh	17,082	0.36%
17	Swedish	16,228	0.34%
18	British	14,951	0.31%
19	Guatemalan	14,816	0.31%
20	Norwegian	14,013	0.29%
21	Puerto Rican	13,655	0.29%
22	Asian Indian	12,240	0.26%
23	Greek	9,601	0.20%
24	Vietnamese	9,591	0.20%
25	Chinese, except Taiwanese	9,515	0.20%
26	Russian	8,843	0.18%
27	French Canadian	8,038	0.17%
28	Korean	7,009	0.15%
29	Lebanese	5,206	0.11%
30	Hungarian	4,936	0.10%
31	Filipino	4,934	0.10%
32	Swiss	4,910	0.10%
33	Honduran	4,559	0.10%
34	Jamaican	4,457	0.09%
35	Austrian	4,130	0.09%
36	Portuguese	3,913	0.08%
37	Czech	3,720	0.08%
38	Scandinavian	3,704	0.08%
39	Canadian	3,551	0.07%
40	Danish	3,377	0.07%
41	Spaniard	2,955	0.06%
42	Ukrainian	2,723	0.06%
43	Turkish	2,424	0.05%
44	Peruvian	2,419	0.05%
45	Colombian	2,407	0.05%
46	Cuban	2,200	0.05%
47	Japanese	2,137	0.04%
48	Czechoslovakian	2,078	0.04%
49	Salvadoran	1,901	0.04%
50	Nigerian	1,801	0.04%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, B02006, B03001, B03002, B04006

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