Virginia Beach city, VA Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 8, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 457.66K Virginia Beach city, VA population, 154.71K had Other Groups ancestry (33.81%), 99.45K had Unclassified ancestry (21.73%), and 51.62K had German ancestry (11.28%).

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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Virginia Beach city, VA Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
Other Groups
Unclassified
German
Irish
English
American
Italian
French (except Basque)
Scottish
Polish
Virginia Beach city, VA Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Other Groups 154712 33.81
Unclassified 99451 21.73
German 51618 11.28
Irish 49165 10.74
English 46314 10.12
American 35762 7.81
Italian 25715 5.62
French (except Basque) 10170 2.22
Scottish 9920 2.17
Polish 9577 2.09
European 8537 1.87
Subsaharan African 6480 1.42
Scotch Irish 5039 1.10
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 4884 1.07
African 4343 0.95
Norwegian 3936 0.86
Dutch 3838 0.84
Swedish 3763 0.82
British 3387 0.74
Welsh 3190 0.70
Russian 2541 0.56
French Canadian 2388 0.52
Greek 2227 0.49
Eastern European 1780 0.39
Ukrainian 1540 0.34
Portuguese 1521 0.33
Jamaican 1359 0.30
Czech 1328 0.29
West Indian 1265 0.28
Hungarian 1219 0.27
Nigerian 1206 0.26
Scandinavian 1048 0.23
Northern European 939 0.21
Canadian 934 0.20
Swiss 892 0.20
Haitian 861 0.19
Slovak 860 0.19
Austrian 849 0.19
Lithuanian 847 0.19
Danish 801 0.18
Belgian 631 0.14
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 628 0.14
Turkish 616 0.14
Czechoslovakian 615 0.13
Lebanese 503 0.11
US Virgin Islander 474 0.10
Finnish 463 0.10
Egyptian 414 0.09
Brazilian 383 0.08
British West Indian 322 0.07