West Virginia's largest ancestry groups

West Virginia's biggest ancestry is German, the background of 18% of residents in 2010. Here is a list of the state's 50 largest ancestries:

Rank	Ancestry	West Virginia Estimated Population	Percentage of Total Population
	Total:	1,853,973	100.0%
1	German	335,477	18.1%
2	Irish	267,713	14.4%
3	American	232,119	12.5%
4	English	205,530	11.1%
5	Italian	85,848	4.6%
6	Dutch	45,323	2.4%
7	Scottish	42,349	2.3%
8	Scotch-Irish	39,648	2.1%
9	Polish	34,292	1.8%
10	French (except Basque)	29,068	1.6%
11	European	14,793	0.8%
12	Welsh	13,637	0.7%
13	Hungarian	11,106	0.6%
14	Swedish	6,984	0.4%
15	Russian	6,622	0.4%
16	Greek	5,450	0.3%
17	Slovak	4,348	0.2%
18	African	4,093	0.2%
19	British	3,955	0.2%
20	Czech	3,455	0.2%
21	Swiss	3,370	0.2%
22	Norwegian	3,357	0.2%
23	French Canadian	3,354	0.2%
24	Lebanese	3,124	0.2%
25	Ukrainian	2,283	0.1%
26	Austrian	2,152	0.1%
27	Canadian	2,129	0.1%
28	Lithuanian	2,110	0.1%
29	Belgian	1,791	0.1%
30	Czechoslovakian	1,767	0.1%
31	Slavic	1,723	0.1%
32	Serbian	1,465	0.1%
33	Croatian	1,436	0.1%
34	Danish	1,306	0.1%
35	Other Arab	1,283	0.1%
36	Finnish	937	0.1%
37	Scandinavian	868	0.0%
38	Egyptian	807	0.0%
39	Yugoslavian	759	0.0%
40	Turkish	696	0.0%
41	Jamaican	677	0.0%
42	Pennsylvania German	673	0.0%
43	Arab	655	0.0%
44	Slovene	615	0.0%
45	Romanian	594	0.0%
46	Syrian	470	0.0%
47	Dutch West Indian	450	0.0%
48	Northern European	422	0.0%
49	Portuguese	389	0.0%
50	Cajun	367	0.0%

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

B04006 People Reporting Ancestry, 1 year estimates