Maine's Largest Ethnic Groups

More Maine residents claim English heritage than any other ethnicity. There is also a large French and French Canadian population, owing to Maine's borer with 2 French speaking Canadian provinces: Quebec, and bilingual New Brunswick.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Maine Population	As a Percent of Total Maine Population
	Total Population	1,327,567	100.00%
1	English	287,386	21.65%
2	Irish	232,022	17.48%
3	French, except Basque	220,990	16.65%
4	American	108,322	8.16%
5	French Canadian	101,004	7.61%
6	German	99,142	7.47%
7	Italian	74,494	5.61%
8	Scottish	71,978	5.42%
9	Polish	27,561	2.08%
10	Swedish	24,721	1.86%
11	Scotch-Irish	23,085	1.74%
12	Canadian	18,127	1.37%
13	Dutch	12,589	0.95%
14	Welsh	10,645	0.80%
15	European	9,480	0.71%
16	Norwegian	9,447	0.71%
17	Russian	9,105	0.69%
18	Portuguese	7,205	0.54%
19	American Indian or Alaska Native	6,876	0.52%
20	Danish	6,445	0.49%
21	Greek	6,384	0.48%
22	British	6,356	0.48%
23	Lithuanian	6,338	0.48%
24	Somalian	5,546	0.42%
25	Finnish	5,441	0.41%
26	Mexican	4,816	0.36%
27	African-American*	4,381	0.33%
28	Chinese, including Taiwanese	4,072	0.31%
29	Hungarian	3,678	0.28%
30	Puerto Rican	3,618	0.27%
31	Vietnamese	3,024	0.23%
32	Austrian	3,012	0.23%
33	Other Hispanic or Latino	2,733	0.21%
34	Scandinavian	2,695	0.20%
35	Ukrainian	2,669	0.20%
36	Czech	2,175	0.16%
37	Swiss	2,103	0.16%
38	Lebanese	2,018	0.15%
39	Central American	2,004	0.15%
40	Asian Indian	1,870	0.14%
41	Slovak	1,647	0.12%
42	South American	1,404	0.11%
43	Filipino	1,355	0.10%
44	Eastern European	1,351	0.10%
45	Czechoslovakian	1,315	0.10%
46	Armenian	1,297	0.10%
47	Northern European	1,236	0.09%
48	Romanian	1,203	0.09%
49	Belgian	1,164	0.09%
50	Korean	1,138	0.09%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

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

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