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Indiana Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Indiana Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 5,529,201 5,534,759 5,546,787 5,548,277 5,553,391 5,510,354
German 674,078 661,419 645,050 622,389 591,019 571,518
American 656,798 615,805 568,585 530,880 506,459 464,760
African American 603,014 608,226 613,060 619,472 626,587 631,923
Hispanic or Latino 421,206 429,522 441,968 450,267 461,850 475,475
Mexican 317,115 320,661 326,141 333,219 336,097 340,483
English 236,190 223,806 211,663 207,010 203,002 231,331
Irish 220,808 215,575 208,997 202,428 192,605 182,981
Some Other Race 152,022 151,500 145,791 144,648 145,747 157,085
Asian 121,729 130,232 137,680 144,991 151,979 158,705
Polish 72,599 70,996 69,661 66,969 65,646 62,795
Italian 58,246 58,024 58,780 57,695 56,523 54,735
European 52,612 61,119 72,363 86,556 102,009 107,730
Scottish 40,786 40,155 40,698 39,312 37,952 37,558
Subsaharan African 40,089 36,724 37,854 39,853 44,391 48,661
Puerto Rican 35,528 36,269 39,013 38,555 41,626 43,210
Dutch 34,334 34,352 34,708 34,047 33,233 32,665
Asian Indian 34,121 35,053 38,170 39,188 40,821 45,019
African 30,689 26,821 25,917 27,067 29,464 29,576
French 30,281 30,258 28,716 27,137 25,412 24,299
Chinese 28,338 31,808 32,224 34,093 34,828 33,813
Scotch-Irish 25,084 24,628 24,097 23,282 22,562 21,261
Swedish 15,437 14,284 13,501 13,017 11,842 11,115
Total Arab 12,491 13,328 13,180 14,511 13,942 14,064
Norwegian 12,236 12,302 11,711 11,529 10,985 9,925
Swiss 12,218 11,929 12,499 12,175 11,672 12,621
Filipino 12,064 12,750 14,257 14,120 14,321 14,240
British 11,558 12,478 14,195 15,719 17,096 15,425
Hungarian 11,543 10,904 10,842 10,588 10,177 9,346
Greek 11,515 10,543 9,984 9,406 9,252 9,076
Salvadoran 10,339 10,575 11,767 12,171 12,779 13,190
Pennsylvania German 10,047 9,042 9,582 8,809 8,346 6,764
Korean 9,963 10,345 10,785 10,536 11,773 11,702
American Indian 9,939 10,673 10,414 10,501 10,897 9,963
All other Hispanic or Latino 9,667 10,111 10,720 11,376 14,299 16,099
Welsh 9,145 9,079 8,878 8,185 7,998 7,936
Burmese 8,292 9,911 10,700 13,442 17,349 18,514
Guatemalan 7,991 8,807 9,171 9,507 9,316 9,115
Honduran 7,530 8,021 8,276 8,846 8,704 8,059
Russian 7,114 6,759 6,767 6,283 5,915 6,282
Slovak 6,975 6,162 5,951 5,920 5,286 5,583
French Canadian 6,621 6,416 6,450 6,183 5,606 4,785
Spaniard 5,854 6,549 6,631 5,920 6,092 7,570
Serbian 5,243 4,945 4,836 4,304 4,360 4,031
Cuban 5,228 5,705 6,356 5,687 6,408 6,347
Japanese 4,928 5,021 5,320 5,342 5,701 6,049
Czech 4,584 4,713 5,042 4,557 3,871 3,831
Ukrainian 4,554 4,887 4,274 3,816 3,436 4,315
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 4,509 4,303 4,412 4,252 4,527 5,736
Croatian 4,190 3,791 3,621 3,475 3,447 3,247
Macedonian 3,997 3,547 3,218 3,194 2,987 2,189
Belgian 3,948 4,111 3,687 3,424 3,381 3,096
Pakistani 3,889 4,480 4,374 4,049 4,349 3,597
Lithuanian 3,763 3,552 3,380 3,259 3,249 2,904
Canadian 3,533 3,426 3,592 3,737 3,629 3,575
Arab 3,219 3,437 3,186 3,506 3,473 2,510
Nigerian 3,168 3,696 4,886 5,643 6,699 8,553
Romanian 3,096 3,067 3,069 2,789 2,752 3,163
Danish 2,990 2,874 2,634 2,447 2,518 2,131
Scandinavian 2,869 2,921 3,005 3,031 3,381 3,826
Northern European 2,825 2,740 2,872 3,699 3,786 3,631
Dominican 2,723 3,207 3,099 3,705 4,041 4,642
Yugoslavian 2,694 2,418 2,639 2,369 2,328 2,147
Nicaraguan 2,642 2,409 2,257 2,276 2,266 2,174
Other Asian, not specified 2,482 2,999 2,845 2,901 2,858 2,445
Spanish 2,456 2,579 2,601 3,245 3,076 4,407
Colombian 2,402 2,594 2,748 3,086 3,450 4,455
Other Arab 2,385 2,908 3,139 3,847 3,765 4,222
Peruvian 2,379 2,935 3,181 3,430 3,381 3,029
Eastern European 2,325 2,877 3,683 4,585 6,130 6,451
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 2,285 2,746 2,635 2,818 2,506 2,205
Venezuelan 2,263 1,901 2,300 2,303 3,088 5,685
Czechoslovakian 2,201 2,081 2,076 2,027 1,607 1,356
Thai 2,082 2,298 2,642 2,929 2,126 2,077
Two or more Asian 2,080 1,962 2,719 2,876 2,642 3,752
Austrian 2,039 2,041 2,280 2,158 2,244 2,056
Ecuadorian 1,788 1,897 1,939 1,407 1,472 1,362
Egyptian 1,782 1,606 1,620 1,761 1,626 1,995
Lebanese 1,617 1,852 1,783 1,832 1,786 1,476
Ethiopian 1,615 1,100 1,486 1,362 1,888 2,165
Iranian 1,595 1,550 1,466 1,687 1,580 1,977
Jamaican 1,569 1,422 1,431 1,537 1,392 2,085
Other Subsaharan African 1,514 1,796 1,917 2,008 2,252 3,889
Haitian 1,433 1,675 1,725 1,475 1,775 2,219
Finnish 1,431 1,200 1,197 1,365 1,412 1,444
Portuguese 1,414 1,501 1,533 1,450 1,742 1,562
Syrian 1,239 1,158 886 759 571 869
Turkish 1,231 1,385 1,286 1,264 1,200 1,150
Cambodian 1,177 1,185 886 652 504 803
Panamanian 1,145 945 1,104 1,113 1,353 1,868
Argentinean 1,143 1,203 1,420 1,425 1,638 1,373
Brazilian 1,093 981 1,062 1,194 1,162 1,414
Slovene 1,090 1,062 1,260 1,410 1,334 1,210
Chilean 1,027 947 873 943 878 710
Ghanaian 993 1,062 1,003 1,002 767 628
Taiwanese 984 654 684 601 816 1,075
Bulgarian 919 815 864 811 760 1,053
Kenyan 903 826 930 1,170 1,258 1,388
Israeli 843 572 530 262 288 194
Latvian 841 803 771 782 934 891
Slavic 795 738 742 806 904 970
Palestinian 779 793 820 1,043 764 763
Armenian 778 675 717 613 538 607
Bolivian 730 653 520 267 166 223
Laotian 701 860 1,039 1,052 1,079 1,224
Australian 623 818 765 542 553 555
Indonesian 621 464 499 624 531 916
Jordanian 559 630 786 707 850 1,258
Nepalese 535 514 520 556 412 737
West Indian 532 390 346 387 387 391
Albanian 486 538 678 680 418 464
Iraqi 482 405 436 446 463 438
Bangladeshi 455 467 464 754 684 951
Costa Rican 451 460 935 1,151 1,023 770
Moroccan 429 539 524 610 644 533
Malaysian 406 491 525 556 491 557
Celtic 372 419 314 382 244 214
Hmong 362 245 384 557 670 563
South African 322 372 307 140 271 288
Other Central American 310 426 346 243 207 240
Alaska Native tribes 288 297 365 381 444 269
Mongolian 280 222 221 151 151 186
Luxembourger 276 259 270 357 316 198
Liberian 249 350 359 340 397 312
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 228 245 271 248 239 294
Sri Lankan 217 151 152 287 404 616
Sudanese 202 174 319 376 440 268
Afghan 191 192 206 226 165 261
Uruguayan 174 168 108 91 132 123
Spanish American 174 341 313 185 223 237
British West Indian 157 104 123 102 139 112
Senegalese 150 174 83 67 171 247
Cajun 149 130 151 139 190 145
Belizean 139 115 134 49 31 88
Bahamian 132 150 94 84 72 78
Other West Indian 125 48 44 42 76 68
Icelander 124 111 109 35 45 21
New Zealander 117 129 67 119 93 61
Barbadian 100 79 113 253 297 251
Estonian 99 112 152 179 132 155
Somali 99 72 192 209 238 389
German Russian 81 86 103 85 116 80
Paraguayan 80 102 77 59 82 55
Alsatian 75 80 77 44 116 189
Zimbabwean 69 135 265 326 349 699
Other South American 67 57 72 57 53 49
Sierra Leonean 59 80 75 23 134 145
Maltese 57 71 72 58 234 223
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 56 72 81 92 85 107
Ugandan 53 61 83 87 37 52
United States Virgin Islander 53 34 50 0 0 32
Basque 48 48 33 14 48 40
Other Asian, specified 46 43 71 41 47 266
Guyanese 42 54 86 103 106 158
Carpatho Rusyn 40 23 22 13 0 0
Dutch West Indian 40 39 27 18 50 54
Cypriot 23 30 26 26 15 17
Soviet Union 18 15 12 12 0 0
Cape Verdean 4 5 32 33 26 62
Okinawan 2 7 10 43 27 47
Bermudan 1 2 54 57 69 64

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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