Idaho Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

Below, we'll show you the full list of different ancestries reported in Idaho 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.

Idaho Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 1,482,914 1,493,155 1,507,880 1,527,262 1,545,409 1,550,979
Hispanic or Latino 191,314 195,589 201,978 209,073 215,476 222,967
Mexican 166,554 169,882 175,796 181,185 184,988 188,699
American 133,869 120,056 113,056 108,322 101,183 94,453
English 110,672 116,880 123,556 122,174 114,796 116,303
German 98,542 96,372 93,789 90,572 88,301 89,470
Irish 38,502 37,920 37,785 40,338 39,622 38,816
Some Other Race 38,371 44,758 47,964 53,110 59,676 66,052
European 28,594 30,667 31,690 35,199 41,938 41,028
Asian 21,711 21,630 22,720 23,758 24,287 24,501
Norwegian 17,772 18,132 17,864 17,410 17,138 16,912
American Indian 16,960 17,653 17,938 18,645 18,454 18,327
Italian 15,950 15,600 15,424 15,677 15,945 15,229
Scottish 13,915 14,332 14,585 13,526 13,639 14,380
Swedish 12,845 12,706 12,936 12,422 12,140 10,698
African American 9,900 10,433 11,231 11,536 11,918 11,536
Dutch 9,067 9,008 8,554 8,781 8,385 7,846
Danish 8,990 8,715 8,451 7,844 7,272 6,849
French 7,453 7,203 7,065 7,062 6,192 5,895
Scotch-Irish 6,375 6,033 5,590 5,690 5,394 4,977
Polish 6,281 5,831 5,661 5,677 5,185 5,187
Welsh 5,133 5,148 5,164 4,624 4,472 4,404
All other Hispanic or Latino 5,032 5,996 4,240 4,952 5,380 6,645
British 4,953 5,709 6,198 6,553 7,723 7,007
Chinese 4,834 4,584 5,490 6,107 6,184 5,695
Spaniard 4,692 4,450 4,801 4,160 4,684 5,014
Basque 4,020 4,106 3,865 3,464 3,263 4,070
Scandinavian 3,706 4,271 4,481 5,227 5,639 6,699
Puerto Rican 3,614 3,350 3,770 4,695 4,793 5,145
Filipino 3,595 4,086 3,982 4,370 4,302 4,015
French Canadian 3,548 3,276 2,967 2,921 2,787 3,028
Subsaharan African 2,983 3,065 3,470 3,567 3,436 2,551
Spanish 2,956 2,706 2,577 2,554 2,296 3,002
Japanese 2,824 2,926 2,801 2,580 2,837 2,659
Swiss 2,605 2,632 2,831 2,788 2,445 2,487
Portuguese 2,567 2,415 2,348 2,078 2,179 2,176
Northern European 2,537 2,939 3,066 3,206 3,674 3,660
Finnish 2,375 2,154 1,997 1,515 1,300 1,425
Yugoslavian 2,307 2,519 2,151 1,864 2,191 1,542
Asian Indian 2,301 2,345 2,764 2,823 2,614 2,795
Russian 2,284 2,197 2,000 1,918 1,975 2,766
Total Arab 2,282 2,518 2,488 3,194 3,591 2,726
Canadian 2,280 2,282 2,447 2,574 2,655 2,611
Korean 2,173 1,727 1,559 1,187 1,251 1,683
Czech 2,166 2,300 2,226 2,028 1,816 1,477
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 1,921 2,003 2,343 2,761 2,755 3,174
Ukrainian 1,711 2,251 1,757 2,462 2,665 2,518
Salvadoran 1,686 1,683 1,741 2,006 1,919 3,122
Guatemalan 1,478 1,569 1,741 1,343 1,674 1,742
Greek 1,399 1,630 1,553 1,410 1,468 1,484
African 1,370 1,477 1,451 1,243 1,073 785
Peruvian 1,034 1,312 1,646 1,703 2,064 2,482
Romanian 1,005 678 453 509 757 797
Laotian 986 1,021 761 1,355 1,294 747
Hungarian 980 1,101 1,140 1,002 1,004 1,019
Colombian 968 999 1,020 1,401 1,352 1,391
Cuban 870 688 1,167 1,327 1,342 864
Other Arab 766 943 813 1,038 1,073 662
Nigerian 762 621 525 568 411 175
Arab 705 864 1,008 1,278 1,358 630
Czechoslovakian 705 779 814 850 782 558
Austrian 641 708 694 799 782 842
Burmese 609 389 550 321 217 201
Two or more Asian 541 590 775 834 841 1,093
Nepalese 512 562 500 509 809 1,290
Lithuanian 496 494 559 647 384 372
Honduran 466 428 293 311 572 729
Iraqi 458 432 438 636 766 979
Croatian 402 446 431 562 636 620
Belgian 389 357 262 296 396 290
Other Subsaharan African 378 497 1,037 999 1,019 619
Armenian 364 314 312 345 337 333
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 364 460 437 416 462 716
Eastern European 358 413 703 833 1,144 1,392
Argentinean 327 481 480 469 598 596
Iranian 326 303 406 310 417 548
Indonesian 324 246 212 110 94 250
Venezuelan 321 354 491 638 845 760
Alaska Native tribes 315 413 491 650 646 541
Australian 307 313 313 162 180 153
Chilean 288 487 702 627 783 637
Other Asian, specified 273 238 274 95 30 434
Turkish 267 352 169 221 152 130
Pakistani 264 266 300 309 75 142
Pennsylvania German 264 224 261 323 281 262
Icelander 258 234 271 264 242 191
Brazilian 249 232 289 348 538 480
Ecuadorian 248 431 514 562 475 398
Serbian 245 416 450 505 505 278
Other Asian, not specified 233 246 206 197 321 317
Taiwanese 214 154 241 240 225 147
Thai 210 210 449 499 677 871
Albanian 206 284 276 314 326 244
Slovak 204 227 255 370 391 333
Ethiopian 184 171 111 156 172 201
Slavic 182 166 144 177 193 98
Celtic 159 166 182 269 189 143
Costa Rican 146 137 330 428 511 460
Haitian 146 183 138 153 181 415
Lebanese 145 142 83 96 142 214
Latvian 145 162 170 170 44 41
Slovene 139 219 247 239 221 196
Nicaraguan 135 95 144 133 229 238
Jamaican 126 215 258 241 234 251
Hmong 124 92 136 166 106 107
Syrian 117 71 67 62 62 5
Bolivian 109 110 110 64 31 37
Cajun 98 101 97 110 132 117
Ghanaian 89 90 89 30 37 11
Dominican 88 222 167 198 583 473
Panamanian 85 96 104 101 98 171
Uruguayan 78 17 18 22 21 14
South African 78 89 121 67 71 69
Cambodian 77 89 59 35 82 94
Bhutanese 68 38 38 35 185 153
Afghan 65 354 291 359 271 434
Paraguayan 46 0 17 40 57 179
New Zealander 44 19 23 52 44 56
Senegalese 43 40 39 47 0 0
Sierra Leonean 40 42 51 0 0 0
Egyptian 38 41 35 32 76 154
Bulgarian 38 289 295 353 371 838
Other South American 37 55 64 64 79 45
Spanish American 37 41 45 37 66 70
Palestinian 37 0 0 0 0 0
Bangladeshi 31 27 30 27 37 0
Luxembourger 31 51 71 76 102 112
Dutch West Indian 29 0 0 16 16 18
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 29 33 13 0 24 18
Mongolian 28 36 37 59 29 51
Macedonian 22 38 90 95 119 178
West Indian 20 24 22 0 0 0
Other Central American 19 0 0 53 36 54
Somali 19 17 13 0 195 444
Malaysian 18 20 51 63 34 36
Moroccan 16 25 30 31 34 12
Okinawan 15 15 14 0 0 8
German Russian 15 9 9 28 45 84
Carpatho Rusyn 14 15 16 14 0 0
Maltese 14 13 0 0 15 14
Belizean 14 0 0 0 0 7
Kenyan 10 0 0 5 5 5
Alsatian 8 7 0 0 0 0
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 6 6 0 10 11 9
Zimbabwean 6 6 16 11 10 7
Sri Lankan 5 5 0 0 54 33
Soviet Union 4 5 5 4 0 0
Sudanese 4 5 5 427 430 222
Estonian 2 1 1 2 0 12

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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