Colorado Ancestry and Population Demographic Data
On this page, you'll find details on the largest ethnic ancestries in Colorado, with links to ancestry pages to research more data.
Below, we'll show you the full list of different ancestries reported in Colorado 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.
Colorado Ancestry Data
Ancestry |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
White |
4,446,095 |
4,517,058 |
4,576,201 |
4,655,584 |
4,712,574 |
4,634,305 |
Hispanic or Latino |
1,112,586 |
1,132,292 |
1,157,200 |
1,184,794 |
1,208,172 |
1,231,126 |
Mexican |
832,155 |
835,310 |
848,985 |
869,149 |
885,441 |
891,760 |
German |
355,279 |
347,290 |
335,701 |
320,689 |
304,071 |
293,916 |
American |
227,740 |
221,197 |
208,992 |
195,022 |
188,202 |
174,576 |
Some Other Race |
224,374 |
224,029 |
225,497 |
214,817 |
216,767 |
233,413 |
African American |
213,787 |
219,349 |
221,155 |
227,938 |
233,647 |
235,692 |
English |
159,242 |
156,925 |
154,139 |
146,351 |
141,724 |
157,648 |
Irish |
154,993 |
152,403 |
148,887 |
144,606 |
139,015 |
137,069 |
Asian |
153,467 |
157,523 |
164,771 |
172,695 |
178,147 |
181,733 |
Italian |
85,547 |
82,808 |
80,550 |
78,432 |
78,742 |
76,061 |
All other Hispanic or Latino |
81,049 |
91,086 |
96,508 |
95,848 |
92,942 |
95,331 |
European |
75,830 |
79,959 |
88,149 |
100,127 |
114,935 |
119,342 |
Spanish |
52,182 |
53,174 |
52,606 |
52,655 |
53,179 |
58,784 |
Spaniard |
45,856 |
45,492 |
45,408 |
46,950 |
48,293 |
51,577 |
Scottish |
37,874 |
38,803 |
39,178 |
38,518 |
37,446 |
34,797 |
Polish |
37,065 |
37,066 |
36,674 |
35,398 |
34,981 |
34,788 |
Norwegian |
36,822 |
36,783 |
36,838 |
36,222 |
36,435 |
34,001 |
Swedish |
32,666 |
30,955 |
29,918 |
29,955 |
28,438 |
28,010 |
American Indian |
32,073 |
33,422 |
34,074 |
36,055 |
36,376 |
36,305 |
Subsaharan African |
31,721 |
33,745 |
33,756 |
35,743 |
37,557 |
36,569 |
Chinese |
29,649 |
30,973 |
31,418 |
33,411 |
34,337 |
33,903 |
Puerto Rican |
28,546 |
30,074 |
30,533 |
33,135 |
35,679 |
36,520 |
Dutch |
24,418 |
23,849 |
23,744 |
22,380 |
21,288 |
20,675 |
Asian Indian |
24,383 |
25,735 |
27,931 |
30,629 |
31,618 |
30,433 |
French |
24,024 |
23,830 |
23,672 |
22,184 |
21,891 |
19,925 |
Scotch-Irish |
23,874 |
23,238 |
22,422 |
21,704 |
22,077 |
21,035 |
Korean |
22,012 |
21,340 |
20,757 |
20,542 |
20,657 |
21,207 |
Russian |
18,502 |
18,423 |
17,459 |
16,579 |
15,433 |
15,022 |
British |
15,087 |
15,522 |
16,210 |
17,431 |
18,650 |
17,203 |
Filipino |
13,900 |
14,538 |
15,463 |
16,300 |
17,942 |
18,412 |
Salvadoran |
12,718 |
13,699 |
14,576 |
15,291 |
17,229 |
16,308 |
Total Arab |
12,587 |
11,987 |
12,358 |
12,973 |
13,272 |
13,336 |
African |
11,784 |
11,691 |
10,818 |
11,709 |
12,353 |
11,240 |
Japanese |
11,212 |
11,766 |
11,113 |
10,673 |
11,010 |
11,346 |
Danish |
10,610 |
9,833 |
9,223 |
8,944 |
8,552 |
8,457 |
Scandinavian |
9,574 |
10,345 |
11,080 |
11,769 |
12,472 |
12,012 |
Czech |
9,518 |
9,330 |
8,908 |
8,992 |
8,945 |
8,252 |
French Canadian |
9,419 |
9,569 |
9,575 |
9,620 |
9,598 |
9,138 |
Welsh |
9,238 |
9,093 |
8,729 |
8,679 |
8,222 |
7,718 |
Northern European |
9,021 |
8,642 |
9,429 |
9,984 |
11,019 |
11,341 |
Guatemalan |
8,780 |
8,516 |
8,438 |
8,924 |
9,333 |
9,034 |
Cuban |
8,422 |
10,050 |
11,623 |
12,259 |
13,659 |
13,396 |
Ethiopian |
8,224 |
8,984 |
9,292 |
9,775 |
9,776 |
9,982 |
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander |
7,695 |
7,441 |
8,580 |
8,296 |
8,643 |
8,883 |
Greek |
7,061 |
6,578 |
6,403 |
6,158 |
6,201 |
6,254 |
Peruvian |
6,747 |
7,052 |
8,527 |
8,357 |
8,088 |
9,090 |
Honduran |
6,563 |
6,517 |
6,746 |
7,216 |
6,811 |
6,417 |
Hungarian |
6,354 |
6,332 |
5,930 |
5,978 |
5,732 |
5,061 |
Colombian |
6,315 |
7,018 |
7,705 |
7,543 |
7,957 |
10,046 |
Ukrainian |
6,133 |
6,260 |
6,678 |
6,309 |
5,699 |
5,944 |
Eastern European |
6,081 |
6,795 |
7,467 |
9,165 |
10,684 |
11,478 |
Canadian |
5,619 |
5,769 |
5,197 |
5,111 |
5,344 |
4,491 |
Swiss |
5,427 |
5,067 |
5,012 |
4,946 |
5,069 |
4,813 |
Austrian |
4,460 |
4,793 |
4,635 |
4,244 |
3,797 |
3,646 |
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) |
4,375 |
4,655 |
4,926 |
4,634 |
4,701 |
4,097 |
Spanish American |
4,273 |
3,824 |
3,210 |
3,140 |
3,052 |
3,865 |
Nepalese |
4,135 |
4,033 |
4,398 |
4,962 |
5,004 |
4,679 |
Hmong |
3,939 |
4,144 |
4,446 |
3,968 |
3,514 |
3,964 |
Other Arab |
3,848 |
3,823 |
3,687 |
3,635 |
3,848 |
3,673 |
Czechoslovakian |
3,652 |
3,392 |
3,612 |
3,040 |
3,073 |
3,062 |
Two or more Asian |
3,589 |
3,101 |
3,527 |
4,186 |
4,361 |
5,272 |
Portuguese |
3,507 |
3,658 |
3,511 |
3,469 |
3,066 |
3,418 |
Iranian |
3,324 |
3,503 |
3,812 |
3,944 |
3,995 |
4,124 |
Slovak |
3,267 |
3,301 |
3,108 |
2,989 |
2,361 |
2,384 |
Lithuanian |
3,254 |
3,131 |
3,028 |
2,764 |
2,343 |
3,161 |
Thai |
3,146 |
3,796 |
4,292 |
4,499 |
4,456 |
4,458 |
Venezuelan |
2,956 |
3,242 |
2,910 |
3,499 |
3,722 |
3,754 |
Slovene |
2,887 |
2,915 |
2,854 |
2,817 |
2,660 |
2,510 |
Yugoslavian |
2,881 |
2,590 |
2,556 |
2,751 |
2,486 |
2,441 |
Finnish |
2,860 |
3,023 |
2,733 |
2,515 |
2,861 |
2,999 |
Argentinean |
2,818 |
3,237 |
3,505 |
3,687 |
3,800 |
4,348 |
Romanian |
2,793 |
2,893 |
3,092 |
3,267 |
3,258 |
2,773 |
Somali |
2,738 |
2,855 |
2,505 |
2,315 |
2,971 |
2,576 |
Panamanian |
2,716 |
2,716 |
3,005 |
2,986 |
3,130 |
3,114 |
Other Asian, not specified |
2,592 |
2,619 |
2,561 |
2,581 |
2,284 |
2,385 |
Lebanese |
2,508 |
2,451 |
2,641 |
2,379 |
2,261 |
2,062 |
Laotian |
2,437 |
2,590 |
2,612 |
2,572 |
2,912 |
2,135 |
Dominican |
2,304 |
2,299 |
2,908 |
3,148 |
3,729 |
4,715 |
Ghanaian |
2,198 |
2,262 |
2,308 |
2,156 |
1,982 |
1,934 |
Jamaican |
2,029 |
2,096 |
2,157 |
1,766 |
2,026 |
1,960 |
Arab |
2,022 |
1,740 |
1,566 |
1,952 |
2,007 |
1,910 |
Cambodian |
2,001 |
2,226 |
2,493 |
2,954 |
2,858 |
3,219 |
Burmese |
1,989 |
1,935 |
2,672 |
3,583 |
3,530 |
3,119 |
Slavic |
1,926 |
1,805 |
1,688 |
1,654 |
1,903 |
1,719 |
Nigerian |
1,911 |
2,164 |
2,423 |
2,588 |
2,183 |
2,520 |
Croatian |
1,893 |
2,014 |
2,001 |
2,112 |
2,019 |
1,841 |
Belgian |
1,824 |
1,745 |
1,566 |
1,667 |
1,642 |
1,953 |
Armenian |
1,733 |
1,652 |
1,723 |
1,687 |
2,283 |
2,114 |
Nicaraguan |
1,701 |
1,870 |
1,683 |
1,913 |
2,166 |
2,462 |
Chilean |
1,698 |
1,942 |
2,197 |
2,747 |
2,934 |
2,930 |
Indonesian |
1,466 |
1,480 |
1,175 |
1,092 |
1,352 |
1,384 |
Sudanese |
1,452 |
1,273 |
1,428 |
1,389 |
1,291 |
1,523 |
Pakistani |
1,444 |
1,521 |
1,878 |
1,969 |
2,209 |
2,571 |
Ecuadorian |
1,441 |
1,801 |
2,049 |
2,374 |
2,469 |
2,765 |
Afghan |
1,414 |
1,577 |
1,243 |
1,675 |
1,579 |
1,188 |
Bulgarian |
1,414 |
1,161 |
1,130 |
1,395 |
1,043 |
1,061 |
Turkish |
1,393 |
1,543 |
1,468 |
1,402 |
1,355 |
1,430 |
Other Subsaharan African |
1,348 |
2,072 |
2,628 |
3,114 |
4,132 |
4,171 |
Brazilian |
1,148 |
1,347 |
1,291 |
1,426 |
1,447 |
1,883 |
Costa Rican |
1,106 |
1,230 |
1,463 |
2,047 |
2,634 |
2,722 |
Bolivian |
1,059 |
923 |
1,118 |
949 |
1,216 |
1,008 |
Australian |
1,053 |
1,287 |
1,334 |
1,053 |
1,261 |
1,652 |
South African |
1,050 |
1,061 |
958 |
823 |
814 |
967 |
Serbian |
1,039 |
933 |
926 |
1,019 |
955 |
1,212 |
Basque |
1,038 |
926 |
811 |
698 |
710 |
731 |
Egyptian |
947 |
741 |
801 |
805 |
970 |
933 |
Moroccan |
920 |
757 |
932 |
1,301 |
1,208 |
1,632 |
Latvian |
901 |
1,022 |
986 |
1,094 |
997 |
751 |
Taiwanese |
897 |
947 |
1,067 |
1,312 |
1,353 |
1,700 |
Israeli |
876 |
858 |
973 |
702 |
589 |
1,049 |
Haitian |
868 |
1,020 |
1,093 |
1,214 |
1,132 |
931 |
Mongolian |
816 |
975 |
1,357 |
1,366 |
1,281 |
1,097 |
Iraqi |
774 |
937 |
1,285 |
1,473 |
1,683 |
1,293 |
Pennsylvania German |
763 |
788 |
848 |
955 |
846 |
737 |
Alaska Native tribes |
722 |
872 |
961 |
1,020 |
1,215 |
928 |
Syrian |
704 |
560 |
551 |
521 |
419 |
337 |
Celtic |
636 |
742 |
871 |
681 |
662 |
663 |
German Russian |
600 |
663 |
593 |
753 |
840 |
789 |
Cajun |
568 |
452 |
427 |
454 |
453 |
419 |
Albanian |
524 |
821 |
800 |
676 |
875 |
752 |
Jordanian |
505 |
510 |
383 |
364 |
394 |
535 |
West Indian |
459 |
456 |
616 |
725 |
646 |
407 |
Trinidadian and Tobagonian |
423 |
429 |
452 |
308 |
275 |
200 |
Icelander |
373 |
328 |
323 |
354 |
344 |
369 |
Palestinian |
359 |
468 |
512 |
543 |
482 |
961 |
Other South American |
317 |
408 |
408 |
379 |
176 |
402 |
New Zealander |
312 |
488 |
474 |
530 |
504 |
520 |
Liberian |
308 |
490 |
577 |
480 |
561 |
374 |
Kenyan |
307 |
417 |
440 |
872 |
987 |
740 |
Other Central American |
296 |
319 |
365 |
80 |
60 |
313 |
Uruguayan |
293 |
179 |
360 |
204 |
173 |
224 |
Paraguayan |
275 |
314 |
364 |
314 |
300 |
241 |
British West Indian |
271 |
233 |
146 |
161 |
149 |
192 |
Bangladeshi |
226 |
192 |
243 |
274 |
241 |
582 |
Malaysian |
224 |
267 |
312 |
265 |
297 |
237 |
Estonian |
197 |
154 |
148 |
222 |
201 |
204 |
Luxembourger |
185 |
204 |
223 |
220 |
195 |
291 |
Belizean |
163 |
191 |
205 |
221 |
175 |
77 |
Sri Lankan |
132 |
172 |
169 |
213 |
179 |
330 |
Sierra Leonean |
120 |
123 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Ugandan |
117 |
145 |
195 |
195 |
302 |
322 |
Senegalese |
113 |
161 |
136 |
262 |
197 |
208 |
Guyanese |
104 |
85 |
141 |
205 |
181 |
109 |
Bhutanese |
103 |
343 |
574 |
683 |
785 |
1,936 |
Macedonian |
97 |
81 |
94 |
151 |
239 |
274 |
Alsatian |
87 |
53 |
52 |
70 |
88 |
67 |
Dutch West Indian |
60 |
25 |
18 |
9 |
59 |
59 |
Carpatho Rusyn |
52 |
74 |
63 |
99 |
43 |
31 |
Other Asian, specified |
48 |
60 |
91 |
93 |
62 |
796 |
Barbadian |
37 |
81 |
108 |
118 |
139 |
131 |
Bermudan |
33 |
35 |
37 |
23 |
22 |
0 |
Zimbabwean |
32 |
36 |
48 |
65 |
0 |
0 |
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac |
29 |
44 |
60 |
96 |
102 |
159 |
Bahamian |
28 |
56 |
48 |
56 |
47 |
48 |
Maltese |
27 |
33 |
41 |
91 |
80 |
99 |
Soviet Union |
20 |
14 |
12 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
Cape Verdean |
19 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
12 |
Cypriot |
13 |
14 |
7 |
10 |
12 |
72 |
United States Virgin Islander |
4 |
33 |
46 |
33 |
31 |
92 |
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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