Ohio's largest ancestry groups

German is Ohio's largest ancestry, the background of over 1 in 4 residents in 2010. Here is a look at the 50 largest ancestries in the state:

Rank	Ancestry	Ohio Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	11,536,182	100.0%
1	German	3,052,015	26.5%
2	Irish	1,625,166	14.1%
3	English	1,041,292	9.0%
4	American	914,236	7.9%
5	Italian	735,980	6.4%
6	Polish	442,936	3.8%
7	French (except Basque)	253,999	2.2%
8	Scottish	214,649	1.9%
9	Hungarian	193,512	1.7%
10	Dutch	186,998	1.6%
11	Slovak	137,343	1.2%
12	Welsh	126,572	1.1%
13	Scotch-Irish	123,572	1.1%
14	European	108,358	0.9%
15	Swiss	79,848	0.7%
16	Russian	77,054	0.7%
17	Swedish	74,989	0.7%
18	Czech	69,445	0.6%
19	African	60,468	0.5%
20	Greek	53,547	0.5%
21	Slovene	49,874	0.4%
22	Ukrainian	44,191	0.4%
23	Norwegian	41,360	0.4%
24	Croatian	40,042	0.3%
25	British	39,286	0.3%
26	Pennsylvania German	35,296	0.3%
27	French Canadian	30,273	0.3%
28	Lebanese	29,465	0.3%
29	Romanian	27,033	0.2%
30	Austrian	26,329	0.2%
31	Lithuanian	23,470	0.2%
32	Serbian	19,963	0.2%
33	Czechoslovakian	18,319	0.2%
34	Finnish	18,080	0.2%
35	Somalian	15,131	0.1%
36	Canadian	14,480	0.1%
37	Eastern European	14,415	0.1%
38	Danish	14,341	0.1%
39	Yugoslavian	12,168	0.1%
40	Portuguese	9,918	0.1%
41	Belgian	9,590	0.1%
42	Arab	9,322	0.1%
43	Jamaican	8,617	0.1%
44	Ethiopian	8,573	0.1%
45	Scandinavian	8,069	0.1%
46	Slavic	7,669	0.1%
47	Syrian	6,392	0.1%
48	Other Arab	6,148	0.1%
49	Northern European	6,010	0.1%
50	Iranian	5,998	0.1%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates