Michigan's largest ancestry groups

German-Americans are the largest ancestry group in Michigan, with over 1 in 5 residents claiming German heritage. Here is a look at the 50 largest ancestries in the state:

Rank	Ancestry	Michigan Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	9,877,574	100.0%
1	German	2,144,855	21.7%
2	Irish	1,151,178	11.7%
3	English	965,111	9.8%
4	Polish	867,260	8.8%
5	American	501,331	5.1%
6	French (except Basque)	482,780	4.9%
7	Dutch	481,878	4.9%
8	Italian	451,397	4.6%
9	Scottish	227,372	2.3%
10	French Canadian	162,407	1.6%
11	Swedish	157,691	1.6%
12	Finnish	108,028	1.1%
13	Hungarian	99,942	1.0%
14	European	98,438	1.0%
15	Norwegian	78,918	0.8%
16	Scotch-Irish	78,830	0.8%
17	Russian	69,886	0.7%
18	Lebanese	57,793	0.6%
19	Belgian	53,377	0.5%
20	Canadian	49,876	0.5%
21	Czech	49,810	0.5%
22	Greek	47,336	0.5%
23	Welsh	45,234	0.5%
24	African	39,497	0.4%
25	Ukrainian	38,416	0.4%
26	Danish	37,564	0.4%
27	Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac	37,340	0.4%
28	Arab	35,277	0.4%
29	Romanian	29,915	0.3%
30	British	28,767	0.3%
31	Lithuanian	28,378	0.3%
32	Slovak	26,969	0.3%
33	Iraqi	23,839	0.2%
34	Austrian	22,598	0.2%
35	Swiss	22,472	0.2%
36	Yugoslavian	21,258	0.2%
37	Croatian	21,094	0.2%
38	Other Arab	20,283	0.2%
39	Albanian	19,936	0.2%
40	Armenian	16,306	0.2%
41	Czechoslovakian	13,949	0.1%
42	Scandinavian	13,350	0.1%
43	Macedonian	11,479	0.1%
44	Maltese	10,034	0.1%
45	Eastern European	9,744	0.1%
46	Serbian	8,509	0.1%
47	Jamaican	7,944	0.1%
48	Pennsylvania German	7,885	0.1%
49	Portuguese	7,512	0.1%
50	Syrian	6,426	0.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates