North Carolina's largest ancestries in 2010

American is the most populous ancestry in North Carolina. Here is a list of the 50 largest ancestries in North Carolina in the 2010 American Community Survey:

Rank	Ancestry	North Carolina Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	9,561,558	100.0%
1	American	1,109,520	11.6%
2	German	1,043,990	10.9%
3	English	957,086	10.0%
4	Irish	869,820	9.1%
5	Italian	281,277	2.9%
6	Scotch-Irish	274,149	2.9%
7	Scottish	245,021	2.6%
8	French (except Basque)	164,954	1.7%
9	Polish	123,281	1.3%
10	European	111,540	1.2%
11	Dutch	111,095	1.2%
12	African	59,165	0.6%
13	Welsh	52,532	0.5%
14	Swedish	51,856	0.5%
15	Norwegian	45,607	0.5%
16	British	43,299	0.5%
17	Russian	42,385	0.4%
18	French Canadian	32,051	0.3%
19	Hungarian	27,028	0.3%
20	Greek	25,756	0.3%
21	Czech	18,158	0.2%
22	Swiss	17,536	0.2%
23	Ukrainian	16,149	0.2%
24	Danish	15,541	0.2%
25	Canadian	14,302	0.1%
26	Portuguese	14,052	0.1%
27	Jamaican	12,176	0.1%
28	Lebanese	12,089	0.1%
29	Slovak	10,400	0.1%
30	Austrian	10,291	0.1%
31	Romanian	9,414	0.1%
32	Lithuanian	9,223	0.1%
33	Scandinavian	8,637	0.1%
34	Eastern European	7,751	0.1%
35	West Indian	6,962	0.1%
36	Finnish	6,813	0.1%
37	Haitian	5,619	0.1%
38	Iranian	5,490	0.1%
39	Other Subsaharan African	5,413	0.1%
40	Yugoslavian	5,068	0.1%
41	Northern European	5,017	0.1%
42	Arab	4,996	0.1%
43	Belgian	4,964	0.1%
44	Egyptian	4,792	0.1%
45	Nigerian	4,606	0.0%
46	Croatian	4,215	0.0%
47	Brazilian	3,904	0.0%
48	South African	3,841	0.0%
49	Czechoslovakian	3,677	0.0%
50	Turkish	3,404	0.0%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates