ORIGINS & ANCESTRY

Every US community, by the numbers.

Population, top cities and counties, and socioeconomic statistics for the four major race and ethnicity groups and more than 110 origin and ancestry groups, from the Census Bureau's detailed-origin tables. Pick a group to see where its communities are largest and most concentrated (2024 data).

Group rankings

The groups ranked against each other nationally. All rankings →

Highest-earning ethnic groups in the US Most educated ethnic groups in the US Ethnic groups with the lowest poverty rates Ethnic groups most likely to own their homes Youngest and oldest ethnic groups in the US Ethnic groups with the most expensive homes Ethnic groups with the most immigrants

Major groups · 4

Hispanic or Latino residents can be of any race; the other three groups count people of one race who are not Hispanic or Latino, so nobody is counted twice.

Hispanic and Latino Americans64.8M Asian Americans19.7M Black Americans39.9M White Americans192.2M

Hispanic origin · 22 groups

Central Americans and South Americans are regional totals that already include countries listed separately here, so they carry no rank.

Pacific Islander origin · 8 groups

1Native Hawaiians689K 2Samoan Americans245K 3Chamorro Americans146K 4Tongan Americans79K 5Fijian Americans55K 6Marshallese Americans44K 7Guamanian Americans24K 8Chuukese Americans13K

Ancestry · 63 groups

West Indian Americans and Arab Americans are regional totals that already include countries listed separately here, so they carry no rank.

1German Americans41.8M 2English Americans31.7M 3Irish Americans31.6M 4American ancestry17.8M 5Italian Americans16.2M 6Polish Americans8.3M 7French Americans6.4M 8Scottish Americans5.6M 9Subsaharan African Americans4.2M 10Norwegian Americans3.9M 11Swedish Americans3.3M –West Indian Americans3.2M 12Dutch Americans3.1M 13Scotch-Irish Americans2.5M –Arab Americans2.3M 14Russian Americans2.2M 15French Canadian Americans1.6M 16Welsh Americans1.6M 17Portuguese Americans1.3M 18Jamaican Americans1.3M 19Hungarian Americans1.3M 20British Americans1.2M 21Czech Americans1.2M 22Greek Americans1.2M 23Ukrainian Americans1.1M 24Danish Americans1.1M 25Haitian Americans1.1M 26Swiss Americans849K 27Nigerian Americans721K 28Finnish Americans614K 29Slovak Americans597K 30Lithuanian Americans597K 31Lebanese Americans597K 32Austrian Americans585K 33Brazilian Americans567K 34Canadian Americans555K 35Iranian Americans519K 36Armenian Americans462K 37Romanian Americans453K 38Croatian Americans403K 39Ethiopian Americans387K 40Egyptian Americans330K 41Belgian Americans315K 42Guyanese Americans259K 43Turkish Americans255K 44Trinidadian & Tobagonian Americans253K 45Ghanaian Americans217K 46Syrian Americans204K 47Serbian Americans189K 48Palestinian Americans171K 49Iraqi Americans170K 50Slovene Americans168K 51Somali Americans166K 52Moroccan Americans153K 53Israeli Americans147K 54Kenyan Americans123K 55Bulgarian Americans109K 56Cape Verdean Americans107K 57Jordanian Americans100K 58Australian Americans98K 59Latvian Americans85K 60Barbadian Americans72K 61Macedonian Americans67K

DATA: US CENSUS BUREAU ACS 5-YEAR DETAILED-ORIGIN TABLES · NATIONAL PROFILES: ACS 1-YEAR S0201

National breakdown of every group → · Immigrants by country of birth →