Arkansas Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

On this page, you'll find details on the largest ethnic ancestries in Arkansas, with links to ancestry pages to research more data.

Below, we'll show you the full list of different ancestries reported in Arkansas for the past 6 years. These start from the latest figures from the Census Bureau for , back to -5.

To make the surfacing of this data easier, we've listed it in descending order based on the most recent year of data available, which means that past years may not be in the correct descending order.

All ancestry labels below are the grouping terms used by the U.S. Census Bureau and are not labels that Name Census has provided.

Arkansas Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 2,307,849 2,307,136 2,302,141 2,302,874 2,301,044 2,269,959
African American 459,748 460,638 459,969 460,970 459,542 457,840
American 313,178 301,982 298,349 292,633 288,150 271,432
Hispanic or Latino 203,226 207,049 213,246 219,052 224,130 229,629
Mexican 152,982 154,215 158,362 159,273 161,614 167,313
English 137,579 129,074 114,919 103,594 92,334 105,988
German 112,560 107,069 101,260 96,033 91,788 86,287
Irish 105,705 99,019 93,759 88,559 83,355 83,415
Some Other Race 62,484 67,645 75,106 78,981 83,576 88,363
Asian 40,336 41,539 42,368 43,988 45,504 46,130
European 37,379 36,874 33,632 31,003 32,192 33,591
Scottish 19,754 19,815 19,038 19,562 18,914 18,718
Scotch-Irish 19,303 18,299 17,244 16,946 16,507 14,713
Salvadoran 17,965 19,138 20,154 22,270 24,241 22,721
Italian 17,191 16,343 16,196 15,908 15,318 14,797
American Indian 13,800 14,636 15,442 15,989 16,270 15,317
French 13,276 12,636 11,781 11,029 10,429 9,798
Asian Indian 9,737 10,589 10,143 10,774 11,041 11,003
Polish 8,174 7,657 6,889 7,173 7,243 6,711
Dutch 7,886 7,929 7,653 7,444 6,829 5,326
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 6,845 6,738 7,062 7,969 8,733 10,455
Chinese 6,364 6,396 6,991 6,874 6,613 6,284
Subsaharan African 6,181 6,652 7,657 10,767 15,116 17,965
Guatemalan 5,803 6,323 5,917 6,397 6,317 6,061
Puerto Rican 5,594 5,973 6,235 7,105 7,446 7,703
Norwegian 5,334 5,399 5,329 5,628 5,500 5,519
British 5,096 4,769 5,394 6,671 7,341 7,288
African 4,974 5,447 6,143 9,024 12,977 15,833
Swedish 4,755 4,098 3,885 3,935 3,540 3,547
Filipino 4,623 4,699 4,211 4,226 4,673 4,946
All other Hispanic or Latino 4,308 5,074 5,333 5,906 6,494 8,328
Laotian 3,801 4,292 4,626 4,116 4,679 5,497
Total Arab 3,654 3,628 4,120 3,605 3,657 4,324
Welsh 3,522 3,497 3,429 3,065 3,113 3,310
French Canadian 3,205 3,206 3,040 3,064 2,609 2,568
Honduran 2,799 3,245 3,300 3,707 3,816 2,707
Spaniard 2,689 2,706 2,831 2,902 2,981 3,058
Danish 2,065 1,856 1,887 1,693 1,577 1,554
Korean 2,037 2,153 2,471 2,676 2,718 2,972
Spanish 2,034 1,701 1,373 1,443 1,797 1,954
Czech 1,750 1,772 1,933 1,847 1,774 2,365
Colombian 1,748 1,465 1,403 1,399 1,058 996
Cuban 1,507 1,798 2,074 2,439 2,163 2,343
Hmong 1,356 1,548 1,223 1,816 1,850 1,443
Russian 1,321 1,162 1,067 967 851 620
Swiss 1,315 1,290 1,050 1,134 1,162 1,303
Scandinavian 1,314 1,258 1,284 1,444 1,693 1,682
Cajun 1,235 1,172 1,297 1,253 994 785
Pakistani 1,225 1,154 1,671 1,623 1,603 1,567
Canadian 1,220 1,132 1,163 1,185 952 930
Greek 1,213 1,189 1,298 1,233 1,140 982
Peruvian 1,155 975 1,023 786 709 680
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 1,121 1,235 1,270 1,186 1,245 1,697
Hungarian 1,115 1,031 921 888 995 954
Northern European 1,003 1,105 1,549 2,115 2,303 2,625
Arab 953 1,066 1,373 904 900 914
Japanese 948 955 1,134 1,319 1,374 1,296
Portuguese 933 873 879 949 993 1,214
Czechoslovakian 925 987 1,100 1,057 847 841
Austrian 921 669 712 544 516 527
Thai 902 966 1,059 1,168 1,265 1,067
Bolivian 818 771 769 690 423 297
Ukrainian 772 664 767 680 818 765
Romanian 766 799 997 1,096 1,068 984
Costa Rican 644 477 405 349 251 404
Dominican 600 518 610 571 714 500
Nicaraguan 600 607 797 782 951 1,192
Bangladeshi 574 580 464 497 614 182
Other Arab 539 549 856 789 846 1,369
Finnish 538 540 433 465 389 358
Lebanese 537 547 543 476 472 422
Other Asian, not specified 496 599 565 637 398 1,053
Cambodian 491 598 413 487 453 456
Palestinian 482 431 320 384 302 431
Bulgarian 472 262 126 67 88 67
Lithuanian 462 435 446 492 490 531
Ecuadorian 448 522 630 591 450 393
Iranian 434 472 560 523 561 641
Slovak 417 446 359 386 453 326
Dutch West Indian 410 389 424 415 315 273
Two or more Asian 392 476 597 589 713 962
Other Central American 387 303 214 398 338 285
Nigerian 380 354 535 540 564 436
Jamaican 359 351 414 315 208 413
Panamanian 347 446 660 610 599 625
Belgian 334 413 427 391 445 399
Turkish 315 177 168 256 116 162
Venezuelan 313 235 274 357 427 630
Syrian 300 194 167 155 151 200
Icelander 293 34 28 16 8 7
Yugoslavian 284 154 193 205 199 143
Iraqi 279 252 288 312 319 193
Other Subsaharan African 276 271 316 369 682 616
Eastern European 271 389 604 858 1,534 1,988
Taiwanese 266 267 213 227 224 141
Argentinean 260 307 387 356 589 598
Armenian 254 237 307 251 277 188
Moroccan 243 169 250 145 172 234
Ethiopian 242 179 221 226 112 81
Pennsylvania German 234 212 212 207 245 345
Serbian 231 226 238 185 241 166
Burmese 213 230 231 347 261 307
Egyptian 210 308 275 371 350 403
Sri Lankan 199 126 77 34 44 69
Brazilian 191 229 284 380 524 382
Indonesian 184 114 136 97 185 245
Celtic 174 90 107 99 109 78
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 161 203 228 43 95 106
Alaska Native tribes 156 113 195 222 237 251
Croatian 152 169 142 185 232 227
South African 141 127 151 240 272 340
Malaysian 131 125 96 88 66 27
Chilean 126 152 274 374 433 518
Haitian 116 117 122 103 166 255
Jordanian 111 112 48 69 145 158
Australian 104 107 145 170 179 152
Ghanaian 93 140 143 90 171 271
Albanian 92 142 107 24 51 45
Estonian 86 89 48 46 25 0
Slavic 86 38 42 34 36 40
Nepalese 83 118 134 178 151 357
West Indian 77 111 130 139 143 317
Latvian 60 138 111 137 124 133
Spanish American 58 60 124 112 54 78
Guyanese 48 46 51 50 5 5
Slovene 48 59 83 82 76 70
Kenyan 47 81 71 134 187 153
British West Indian 41 41 3 0 59 28
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 36 130 103 114 125 214
Barbadian 34 22 0 0 0 1
Belizean 34 24 24 28 102 92
Uruguayan 32 28 15 15 11 14
Basque 29 108 174 178 219 171
New Zealander 27 26 22 21 34 31
Israeli 18 17 10 19 76 157
Mongolian 17 51 61 42 77 122
Maltese 16 20 15 9 13 0
Liberian 15 21 27 33 24 57
Macedonian 14 19 35 22 23 22
Other West Indian 14 14 0 0 0 0
Afghan 13 11 10 11 18 46
Senegalese 13 6 5 0 0 0
Luxembourger 11 12 13 24 26 14
Paraguayan 9 10 82 78 100 82
Alsatian 7 16 15 33 32 31

Data Source(s)

All of the data on this page is sourced from the latest American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, from the United States Census Bureau. The latest year for the ACS is currently .

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