Florida Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 21.34M Florida population, 8.06M had Other Groups ancestry (37.79%), 4.17M had Unclassified ancestry (19.55%), and 1.92M had German ancestry (8.98%).

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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NB: People could belong to one or more ancestry groups.

Florida Percentages of Ancestry of Population Population in 2021
Other Groups
Unclassified
German
Irish
American
English
Italian
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)
Haitian
Polish
Florida Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Other Groups 8064323 37.79
Unclassified 4172251 19.55
German 1917002 8.98
Irish 1761730 8.26
American 1722646 8.07
English 1543099 7.23
Italian 1212630 5.68
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 933411 4.37
Haitian 487632 2.29
Polish 478483 2.24
French (except Basque) 406057 1.90
Jamaican 311083 1.46
European 303259 1.42
Scottish 298449 1.40
Russian 196097 0.92
Subsaharan African 165812 0.78
Dutch 161684 0.76
Scotch Irish 152558 0.72
Swedish 144216 0.68
British 129805 0.61
Norwegian 123151 0.58
African 116077 0.54
French Canadian 106621 0.50
Brazilian 105290 0.49
Welsh 97206 0.46
Hungarian 94075 0.44
Portuguese 89709 0.42
Greek 88329 0.41
Eastern European 68332 0.32
Canadian 61939 0.29
Ukrainian 59619 0.28
Czech 49431 0.23
Austrian 45745 0.21
Lebanese 41167 0.19
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 40159 0.19
Scandinavian 39794 0.19
Danish 39308 0.18
Lithuanian 38337 0.18
West Indian 37063 0.17
Romanian 36323 0.17
Swiss 33222 0.16
Bahamian 32535 0.15
Slovak 31038 0.14
Guyanese 26939 0.13
Finnish 26293 0.12
Northern European 18527 0.09
Turkish 18377 0.09
British West Indian 17911 0.08
Croatian 17371 0.08
Israeli 16670 0.08
Nigerian 16083 0.08
Belgian 15930 0.08
Czechoslovakian 15882 0.07
Yugoslavian 15699 0.07
Egyptian 15446 0.07
Syrian 15346 0.07
Iranian 15291 0.07
Albania 15290 0.07
Arab 14558 0.07
Moroccan 13224 0.06
Armenian 13136 0.06
Serbian 10900 0.05
Palestinian 9966 0.05
Slavic 8421 0.04
Bulgarian 8056 0.04
South African 7969 0.04
Slovene 7584 0.04
US Virgin Islander 7389 0.04
Pennsylvania German 7214 0.03
Barbadian 6898 0.03
Australian 6726 0.03
Belizean 5015 0.02
Jordanian 4739 0.02
Latvian 4733 0.02
Ethiopian 4304 0.02
Iraqi 4078 0.02
Celtic 3284 0.02
Cape Verdean 2889 0.01
Ghanaian 2552 0.01
Maltese 2540 0.01
Basque 2477 0.01
Cajun 2326 0.01
Macedonian 2286 0.01
Kenyan 2163 0.01
Estonian 2038 0.01
Icelander 2027 0.01
Sudanese 1862 0.01
Liberian 1750 0.01
Dutch West Indian 1687 0.01
Afghan 1590 0.01
New Zealander 1442 0.01
Luxembourger 1438 0.01
Bermudan 1292 0.01
German Russian 893 0.00
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 764 0.00
Cypriot 710 0.00
Senegalese 564 0.00
Zimbabwean 555 0.00
Sierra Leonean 496 0.00
Ugandan 401 0.00
Alsatian 386 0.00
Carpatho Rusyn 376 0.00
Somali 356 0.00
Soviet Union 120 0.00