New York's largest ancestry groups

More New Yorkers claim Italian heritage than any other ancestry. Here is a list of the 50 biggest ancestries in New York in the 2010 American Community Survey:

Rank	Ancestry	New York Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	19,392,283	100.0%
1	Italian	2,633,293	13.6%
2	Irish	2,509,092	12.9%
3	German	2,140,879	11.0%
4	English	1,096,163	5.7%
5	Polish	977,847	5.0%
6	American	731,709	3.8%
7	French (except Basque)	475,969	2.5%
8	Russian	457,047	2.4%
9	Jamaican	305,285	1.6%
10	Dutch	261,829	1.4%
11	Scottish	215,898	1.1%
12	Haitian	190,718	1.0%
13	European	174,364	0.9%
14	Greek	158,467	0.8%
15	Hungarian	157,863	0.8%
16	African	132,490	0.7%
17	Ukrainian	132,438	0.7%
18	Guyanese	131,544	0.7%
19	West Indian	131,414	0.7%
20	Swedish	131,183	0.7%
21	French Canadian	121,691	0.6%
22	Trinidadian and Tobagonian	95,319	0.5%
23	Eastern European	93,425	0.5%
24	Welsh	85,773	0.4%
25	Austrian	84,174	0.4%
26	Norwegian	79,815	0.4%
27	Scotch-Irish	75,137	0.4%
28	British	57,978	0.3%
29	Albanian	56,649	0.3%
30	Romanian	56,217	0.3%
31	Canadian	53,402	0.3%
32	Czech	51,242	0.3%
33	Portuguese	51,027	0.3%
34	British West Indian	50,376	0.3%
35	Lithuanian	46,545	0.2%
36	Lebanese	37,745	0.2%
37	Arab	37,066	0.2%
38	Slovak	36,533	0.2%
39	Swiss	35,607	0.2%
40	Danish	34,101	0.2%
41	Israeli	32,567	0.2%
42	Yugoslavian	31,788	0.2%
43	Turkish	29,153	0.2%
44	Nigerian	29,108	0.2%
45	Iranian	28,964	0.1%
46	Other Arab	27,205	0.1%
47	Brazilian	26,310	0.1%
48	Barbadian	26,234	0.1%
49	Egyptian	25,978	0.1%
50	Croatian	24,951	0.1%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates