The American Mosaic: Nevada

One in five Nevadans has a Mexican background, making it the state's largest ethnic group.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Nevada Population	As a Percent of Total Nevada Population
	Total Population	2,704,642	100.00%
1	Mexican	561,298	20.75%
2	German	343,249	12.69%
3	Irish	264,554	9.78%
4	English	222,241	8.22%
5	African-American*	180,507	6.67%
6	Italian	168,799	6.24%
7	Filipino	97,200	3.59%
8	American	97,097	3.59%
9	French, except Basque	68,775	2.54%
10	Polish	59,371	2.20%
11	Scottish	43,849	1.62%
12	Norwegian	40,479	1.50%
13	Dutch	35,445	1.31%
14	European	34,505	1.28%
15	Chinese, except Taiwanese	34,252	1.27%
16	Swedish	34,094	1.26%
17	Russian	27,590	1.02%
18	Cuban	25,209	0.93%
19	Puerto Rican	23,876	0.88%
20	Salvadoran	23,764	0.88%
21	Scotch-Irish	23,382	0.86%
22	Portuguese	21,183	0.78%
23	Guatemalan	18,720	0.69%
24	Danish	17,836	0.66%
25	Welsh	17,450	0.65%
26	African	16,155	0.60%
27	Korean	14,548	0.54%
28	Hungarian	14,254	0.53%
29	Spaniard	13,674	0.51%
30	Spanish	10,454	0.39%
31	French Canadian	10,451	0.39%
32	Japanese	10,382	0.38%
33	Greek	10,210	0.38%
34	Czech	9,713	0.36%
35	Asian Indian	9,256	0.34%
36	British	9,210	0.34%
37	Vietnamese	8,982	0.33%
38	Canadian	8,880	0.33%
39	Swiss	8,874	0.33%
40	Austrian	7,208	0.27%
41	Native Hawaiian	6,372	0.24%
42	Colombian	6,227	0.23%
43	Armenian	5,845	0.22%
44	Finnish	5,790	0.21%
45	Thai	5,698	0.21%
46	Scandinavian	5,408	0.20%
47	Peruvian	5,208	0.19%
48	Basque	5,010	0.19%
49	Lithuanian	4,678	0.17%
50	Romanian	4,572	0.17%

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.

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