Onondaga County, NY Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 474.62K Onondaga County, NY population, 99.57K had Unclassified ancestry (20.98%), 93.21K had Other Groups ancestry (19.64%), and 89.06K had Irish ancestry (18.76%).

The chart below shows the top 10 ancestry groups, and the table below shows both the number and percentages for all ancestry groups.

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Onondaga County, NY Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
Unclassified
Other Groups
Irish
Italian
German
English
Polish
French (except Basque)
American
Scottish
Onondaga County, NY Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Unclassified 99567 20.98
Other Groups 93211 19.64
Irish 89057 18.76
Italian 74386 15.67
German 71438 15.05
English 52233 11.01
Polish 30822 6.49
French (except Basque) 16716 3.52
American 14819 3.12
Scottish 8079 1.70
Dutch 6741 1.42
French Canadian 6657 1.40
Subsaharan African 6421 1.35
Ukrainian 6024 1.27
European 5811 1.22
Russian 4573 0.96
Swedish 3734 0.79
Welsh 3370 0.71
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 2744 0.58
Scotch Irish 2617 0.55
Greek 2499 0.53
African 2319 0.49
Norwegian 2107 0.44
British 2062 0.43
Eastern European 2041 0.43
Hungarian 1628 0.34
Swiss 1572 0.33
Jamaican 1473 0.31
Austrian 1442 0.30
Canadian 1368 0.29
Somali 1292 0.27
Arab 1107 0.23
Czech 1094 0.23
Lebanese 1078 0.23
Yugoslavian 1064 0.22
Slovak 950 0.20
Scandinavian 905 0.19
Danish 750 0.16
Lithuanian 747 0.16
Portuguese 735 0.16
Palestinian 612 0.13
Haitian 560 0.12
Iraqi 543 0.11
Northern European 511 0.11
Armenian 488 0.10
Nigerian 487 0.10
Syrian 477 0.10
Macedonian 469 0.10
Kenyan 438 0.09
Slovene 426 0.09
Egyptian 424 0.09
Ethiopian 424 0.09
Slavic 399 0.08
Turkish 395 0.08
Albania 376 0.08
Ghanaian 362 0.08
West Indian 334 0.07
Romanian 324 0.07
Finnish 284 0.06
Moroccan 283 0.06
Czechoslovakian 277 0.06
Guyanese 269 0.06
Belgian 256 0.05
Pennsylvania German 233 0.05
Brazilian 221 0.05
Afghan 220 0.05
Croatian 208 0.04
Serbian 198 0.04
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 148 0.03
Israeli 141 0.03
Sudanese 128 0.03
Iranian 118 0.03
British West Indian 114 0.02
Celtic 113 0.02
Barbadian 82 0.02
Latvian 81 0.02
Liberian 73 0.02
Bulgarian 61 0.01
Maltese 35 0.01
South African 33 0.01
Zimbabwean 32 0.01
Australian 30 0.01
Jordanian 27 0.01
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 27 0.01
Alsatian 26 0.01
Icelander 25 0.01
Luxembourger 25 0.01
Estonian 24 0.01
Belizean 23 0.01
Cape Verdean 15 0.00
Bahamian 15 0.00
Cajun 14 0.00
US Virgin Islander 11 0.00
Basque 10 0.00
German Russian 10 0.00
Dutch West Indian 8 0.00
Senegalese 7 0.00