Lancaster city, PA Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 8, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 58.03K Lancaster city, PA population, 27.06K had Other Groups ancestry (46.63%), 13.17K had Unclassified ancestry (22.69%), and 10.09K had German ancestry (17.38%).

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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Lancaster city, PA Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
Other Groups
Unclassified
German
Irish
English
Italian
Subsaharan African
American
Polish
Swiss
Lancaster city, PA Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Other Groups 27061 46.63
Unclassified 13166 22.69
German 10087 17.38
Irish 4387 7.56
English 2532 4.36
Italian 2233 3.85
Subsaharan African 1623 2.80
American 1554 2.68
Polish 1039 1.79
Swiss 1003 1.73
Scottish 774 1.33
African 752 1.30
French (except Basque) 607 1.05
Welsh 490 0.84
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 488 0.84
Ethiopian 446 0.77
Jamaican 384 0.66
European 374 0.64
Dutch 329 0.57
British 305 0.53
Hungarian 240 0.41
Pennsylvania German 229 0.40
Scotch Irish 201 0.35
Swedish 193 0.33
Ukrainian 174 0.30
Latvian 147 0.25
Greek 145 0.25
Norwegian 131 0.23
Slovak 107 0.18
Lithuanian 106 0.18
Eastern European 97 0.17
Russian 89 0.15
Nigerian 89 0.15
Portuguese 73 0.13
Northern European 72 0.12
Canadian 59 0.10
Haitian 59 0.10
Finnish 47 0.08
Belgian 44 0.08
West Indian 43 0.07
Lebanese 40 0.07
Czechoslovakian 40 0.07
French Canadian 38 0.07
Palestinian 32 0.06
Czech 32 0.06
Slavic 28 0.05
Jordanian 27 0.05
Austrian 26 0.05
Scandinavian 26 0.05
Turkish 25 0.04