Sterling Heights city, MI Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 7, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 134.06K Sterling Heights city, MI population, 24.43K had Other Groups ancestry (18.22%), 20.84K had Unclassified ancestry (15.55%), and 17.46K had German ancestry (13.03%).

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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Sterling Heights city, MI Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
Other Groups
Unclassified
German
Polish
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac
Italian
Irish
English
Iraqi
American
Sterling Heights city, MI Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Other Groups 24432 18.22
Unclassified 20843 15.55
German 17464 13.03
Polish 17088 12.75
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 15798 11.78
Italian 11003 8.21
Irish 9088 6.78
English 6678 4.98
Iraqi 6364 4.75
American 3856 2.88
Albania 3331 2.49
French (except Basque) 3164 2.36
French Canadian 2340 1.75
Arab 2336 1.74
Scottish 1826 1.36
Lebanese 1630 1.22
Romanian 1425 1.06
Greek 1206 0.90
Ukrainian 1083 0.81
Yugoslavian 1074 0.80
Belgian 1052 0.79
European 992 0.74
Canadian 985 0.74
Macedonian 977 0.73
Russian 966 0.72
Dutch 942 0.70
Scotch Irish 801 0.60
Subsaharan African 790 0.59
Swedish 783 0.58
Slovak 764 0.57
Hungarian 715 0.53
Jordanian 673 0.50
British 582 0.43
Finnish 521 0.39
African 518 0.39
Serbian 513 0.38
Syrian 440 0.33
Czech 402 0.30
Norwegian 386 0.29
Egyptian 345 0.26
Austrian 282 0.21
Welsh 280 0.21
Slovene 262 0.20
Czechoslovakian 248 0.19
Armenian 243 0.18
Ghanaian 225 0.17
Danish 209 0.16
Lithuanian 179 0.13
Croatian 172 0.13
Slavic 152 0.11