Rhode Island's largest ancestry groups

Italian-Americans are the largest ancestry group in Rhode Island, with almost 1 in 5 residents claiming an Italian background. Here is a look at the state's 50 largest ancestries:

Rank	Ancestry	Rhode Island Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	1,052,886	100.0%
1	Italian	203,337	19.3%
2	Irish	202,662	19.2%
3	English	134,432	12.8%
4	French (except Basque)	127,755	12.1%
5	Portuguese	100,644	9.6%
6	German	62,338	5.9%
7	French Canadian	47,512	4.5%
8	Polish	40,680	3.9%
9	American	25,776	2.4%
10	Cape Verdean	22,106	2.1%
11	Scottish	21,330	2.0%
12	Swedish	19,416	1.8%
13	Russian	9,414	0.9%
14	Greek	7,700	0.7%
15	Scotch-Irish	6,271	0.6%
16	Armenian	6,264	0.6%
17	Dutch	5,727	0.5%
18	European	4,904	0.5%
19	Canadian	4,060	0.4%
20	Lithuanian	3,846	0.4%
21	Haitian	3,800	0.4%
22	Norwegian	3,537	0.3%
23	Ukrainian	3,412	0.3%
24	Hungarian	3,094	0.3%
25	British	3,065	0.3%
26	African	2,880	0.3%
27	Lebanese	2,872	0.3%
28	Welsh	2,531	0.2%
29	Syrian	2,473	0.2%
30	Austrian	2,062	0.2%
31	Liberian	2,054	0.2%
32	Danish	1,930	0.2%
33	Eastern European	1,525	0.1%
34	Brazilian	1,523	0.1%
35	Other Subsaharan African	1,511	0.1%
36	Finnish	1,500	0.1%
37	Arab	1,231	0.1%
38	West Indian	1,162	0.1%
39	Czech	1,065	0.1%
40	Ghanaian	888	0.1%
41	Belgian	846	0.1%
42	Jamaican	781	0.1%
43	Romanian	713	0.1%
44	Northern European	689	0.1%
45	Celtic	678	0.1%
46	Barbadian	639	0.1%
47	Turkish	626	0.1%
48	Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac	610	0.1%
49	Jordanian	570	0.1%
50	Scandinavian	530	0.1%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates