Oregon Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

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

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

Oregon Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 3,352,941 3,387,825 3,416,776 3,445,933 3,480,920 3,449,081
Hispanic or Latino 485,646 494,806 509,507 523,956 537,217 552,279
Mexican 411,776 416,105 425,950 431,169 436,485 445,523
German 222,440 215,155 211,079 202,012 192,393 189,666
American 181,909 177,526 171,426 169,724 167,680 158,466
Asian 156,695 160,155 166,351 174,510 180,580 187,801
English 135,658 131,473 126,342 124,179 120,364 127,995
Some Other Race 132,667 124,565 121,000 127,084 126,587 140,247
Irish 113,829 108,773 104,438 101,876 98,307 101,036
European 75,550 80,532 87,186 101,291 118,984 120,868
African American 72,837 74,012 76,347 77,789 78,679 79,117
Norwegian 51,264 48,949 47,444 44,616 43,290 40,646
Italian 45,162 43,636 43,410 41,702 39,914 38,057
Chinese 36,257 36,514 37,402 38,587 40,801 41,058
American Indian 34,152 32,960 33,828 34,440 34,697 33,139
Scottish 33,800 33,362 32,434 31,330 29,468 27,531
Swedish 28,261 27,972 26,191 24,179 22,062 20,589
Dutch 19,972 19,316 18,675 17,332 17,275 16,001
French 19,058 18,448 18,178 17,612 16,345 15,271
Russian 18,838 19,396 19,764 18,971 17,861 16,928
Asian Indian 18,775 20,307 22,870 24,598 25,432 29,566
Polish 18,691 17,889 17,339 16,548 15,681 16,049
Scotch-Irish 18,600 18,015 17,616 17,310 16,087 15,883
Korean 17,192 15,582 15,203 15,939 16,886 16,638
Filipino 16,901 17,466 18,488 20,103 20,543 21,214
Subsaharan African 15,655 14,642 16,279 17,471 16,964 16,376
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 15,042 14,936 15,157 16,006 16,625 16,445
Japanese 13,436 13,386 13,604 13,500 13,825 13,799
British 12,915 13,721 15,023 15,757 17,036 16,444
Ukrainian 12,616 13,385 14,391 12,951 12,179 13,116
Danish 11,461 10,388 10,530 10,004 9,005 8,293
Scandinavian 11,160 11,449 11,860 12,317 13,241 13,264
Puerto Rican 11,137 11,859 13,143 13,797 13,973 14,501
French Canadian 9,836 9,730 9,398 8,672 8,165 8,062
Total Arab 9,787 10,331 9,763 10,280 10,664 11,510
Northern European 9,705 9,195 10,241 11,782 13,653 14,010
Spaniard 9,460 9,736 9,803 10,629 11,464 11,532
Guatemalan 8,874 8,813 9,363 10,007 12,231 11,386
Welsh 7,655 7,797 7,640 7,277 7,082 6,591
All other Hispanic or Latino 7,386 9,522 11,078 14,086 15,616 17,396
Romanian 7,156 6,836 6,280 6,095 6,686 6,683
Salvadoran 7,038 8,189 8,783 10,668 10,362 10,508
Portuguese 6,848 6,762 6,719 6,502 5,745 5,366
African 6,775 6,310 5,814 6,515 6,472 6,166
Finnish 6,756 6,613 6,610 6,102 5,718 5,405
Swiss 6,430 5,956 5,920 6,144 6,044 6,697
Spanish 6,141 6,803 6,812 7,011 7,741 9,679
Canadian 5,833 5,534 5,256 5,034 5,038 4,945
Czech 5,699 5,179 4,933 5,200 5,055 4,972
Laotian 4,917 5,102 4,817 5,544 4,953 5,050
Two or more Asian 4,762 5,052 5,317 5,573 5,832 6,736
Cuban 4,659 5,137 5,930 6,713 6,953 7,649
Greek 4,595 4,520 4,431 4,915 4,832 4,252
Cambodian 4,501 4,822 4,372 4,472 4,290 4,219
Iranian 3,992 3,875 4,200 4,213 4,388 4,803
Hungarian 3,918 3,850 3,644 3,615 3,559 3,968
Eastern European 3,898 4,644 5,082 5,819 6,589 6,810
Peruvian 3,171 3,237 3,048 3,562 4,040 3,950
Colombian 3,129 3,453 3,238 3,631 3,997 4,135
Other Arab 3,097 2,956 2,576 2,970 3,083 2,882
Ethiopian 2,982 2,895 3,173 4,056 4,054 3,885
Thai 2,702 2,699 2,937 3,036 3,442 3,669
Somali 2,677 2,426 3,041 3,189 3,044 2,903
Austrian 2,362 2,480 2,444 2,204 2,226 2,458
Hmong 2,298 2,411 2,919 3,429 3,074 2,716
Czechoslovakian 2,241 1,882 1,849 1,735 1,724 1,517
Yugoslavian 2,217 1,989 1,715 1,857 1,852 1,236
Arab 2,080 2,236 1,899 1,532 1,671 1,465
Croatian 1,961 2,003 1,736 1,880 1,761 1,796
Belgian 1,875 1,699 1,529 1,574 1,610 1,515
Argentinean 1,702 1,672 1,749 1,517 1,299 1,165
Honduran 1,664 1,669 1,589 1,536 2,032 2,116
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 1,659 1,868 1,678 1,729 1,765 2,800
Ecuadorian 1,522 1,260 1,405 1,566 1,564 1,705
Lithuanian 1,497 1,409 1,375 1,401 1,476 1,779
Lebanese 1,415 1,594 1,831 1,839 1,758 1,931
Chilean 1,344 1,160 1,500 1,550 1,775 1,738
Armenian 1,339 1,091 1,263 1,158 1,155 1,174
Other Asian, not specified 1,327 1,156 1,265 1,349 1,674 2,075
Alaska Native tribes 1,319 1,207 1,452 1,651 1,839 1,612
Taiwanese 1,300 1,381 1,450 1,556 1,762 1,715
Basque 1,286 1,300 1,275 1,376 1,343 1,260
Venezuelan 1,254 1,127 1,155 1,213 1,621 1,482
Nicaraguan 1,242 1,145 1,394 1,461 1,804 1,797
Pennsylvania German 1,205 963 963 854 765 663
Costa Rican 1,194 1,215 1,104 1,021 1,036 1,732
Nepalese 1,124 1,121 994 786 768 572
Indonesian 1,122 1,082 1,042 1,140 1,085 793
Turkish 1,117 1,415 1,146 942 1,060 1,373
Dominican 1,116 829 668 687 821 819
Other Subsaharan African 1,040 1,014 1,608 798 820 891
Burmese 1,010 1,660 1,568 1,185 1,636 2,130
Slovak 912 852 966 911 983 870
Australian 873 916 787 929 950 799
Brazilian 854 889 997 1,095 1,206 1,062
Egyptian 842 819 1,038 1,024 1,011 1,489
Slavic 840 977 956 794 764 661
Panamanian 804 1,018 952 967 978 1,637
Iraqi 749 817 642 1,070 1,296 1,654
Bulgarian 746 757 809 729 628 595
Nigerian 715 776 923 959 854 651
Pakistani 627 847 912 1,194 1,341 1,231
Syrian 591 733 747 615 587 890
Serbian 581 531 474 678 673 579
Celtic 546 636 675 692 811 788
Jamaican 514 453 440 518 631 1,185
Afghan 512 731 886 901 513 676
Latvian 511 598 579 670 779 652
Haitian 503 718 667 701 584 813
Bhutanese 470 474 437 540 268 189
South African 421 348 336 258 290 377
Icelander 414 497 448 416 278 284
Slovene 382 422 390 406 343 404
Moroccan 372 308 382 541 567 410
Estonian 366 416 343 389 451 403
Other Central American 352 158 146 243 378 427
Israeli 352 397 517 550 425 508
Albanian 345 339 400 329 193 131
Palestinian 342 421 293 145 197 311
Kenyan 329 351 413 657 542 518
Jordanian 299 447 355 544 494 478
Bolivian 298 276 282 496 480 427
Sri Lankan 293 321 309 418 509 627
Cajun 289 254 206 192 229 314
Liberian 249 31 39 48 32 52
Mongolian 229 288 149 114 96 62
Bangladeshi 226 348 658 758 922 762
West Indian 215 175 128 127 129 198
New Zealander 212 209 145 149 181 276
Ghanaian 193 229 449 468 468 601
Spanish American 187 164 60 36 17 98
German Russian 186 278 234 229 237 260
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 172 181 167 192 142 325
Maltese 166 129 84 39 31 37
Luxembourger 146 127 134 94 159 180
Sudanese 137 156 163 183 54 55
Belizean 130 191 108 94 206 230
Macedonian 91 115 160 232 290 329
Uruguayan 85 57 45 167 237 530
Okinawan 81 88 42 48 25 23
Cypriot 80 32 37 35 50 49
Other South American 78 170 276 193 186 148
Dutch West Indian 68 84 91 70 34 5
Malaysian 67 70 109 138 248 203
Senegalese 50 15 13 13 21 13
Bahamian 50 48 50 0 0 0
Alsatian 44 42 80 69 90 70
Cape Verdean 44 24 28 0 0 0
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 39 23 30 40 32 46
Paraguayan 33 32 34 30 127 199
Carpatho Rusyn 28 5 5 5 5 0
Ugandan 25 40 121 153 141 105
Other Asian, specified 19 28 74 64 92 965
Zimbabwean 13 22 63 70 62 66
Other West Indian 7 0 0 0 10 11
Sierra Leonean 5 5 95 104 110 93
Guyanese 2 15 1 7 57 58

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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