New Jersey's largest ancestry groups

New Jersey's Italian heritage gets a lot of attention in pop culture. Italian-Americans are frequently cast as the stars of television shows set in the Garden State like The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and Cake Boss.

It's no surprise that Italians have left such a significant cultural mark in the state: Italian-Americans were the largest ancestry group in New Jersey in 2010, with 17% of residents claiming Italian heritage. Here's a look at the 50 largest ancestries in the Garden State:

Rank	Ancestry	New Jersey Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	8,801,624	100.0%
1	Italian	1,491,879	17.0%
2	Irish	1,335,209	15.2%
3	German	1,008,500	11.5%
4	Polish	539,598	6.1%
5	English	469,796	5.3%
6	American	309,491	3.5%
7	Russian	186,602	2.1%
8	French (except Basque)	124,391	1.4%
9	Hungarian	108,620	1.2%
10	Dutch	102,379	1.2%
11	Scottish	94,545	1.1%
12	Portuguese	84,386	1.0%
13	Ukrainian	70,594	0.8%
14	European	66,330	0.8%
15	Greek	64,310	0.7%
16	Jamaican	55,351	0.6%
17	Swedish	54,479	0.6%
18	African	49,715	0.6%
19	Haitian	49,340	0.6%
20	Eastern European	45,522	0.5%
21	Norwegian	42,237	0.5%
22	Austrian	38,402	0.4%
23	Welsh	37,716	0.4%
24	Slovak	36,998	0.4%
25	Scotch-Irish	33,877	0.4%
26	Brazilian	33,419	0.4%
27	Czech	30,732	0.3%
28	Egyptian	29,889	0.3%
29	Lithuanian	28,051	0.3%
30	British	25,676	0.3%
31	French Canadian	22,286	0.3%
32	Guyanese	21,364	0.2%
33	Romanian	18,976	0.2%
34	Nigerian	18,195	0.2%
35	Armenian	17,908	0.2%
36	Swiss	17,221	0.2%
37	West Indian	16,323	0.2%
38	Danish	16,310	0.2%
39	Turkish	14,875	0.2%
40	Lebanese	13,328	0.2%
41	Albanian	12,121	0.1%
42	Canadian	11,651	0.1%
43	Croatian	11,578	0.1%
44	Syrian	11,095	0.1%
45	Israeli	10,913	0.1%
46	Arab	10,644	0.1%
47	Trinidadian and Tobagonian	10,472	0.1%
48	Iranian	10,379	0.1%
49	Ghanaian	9,777	0.1%
50	Czechoslovakian	9,309	0.1%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates