Rhode Island Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 1.09M Rhode Island population, 257.42K had Other Groups ancestry (23.57%), 185.95K had Irish ancestry (17.03%), and 181.60K had Unclassified ancestry (16.63%).

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

You can see similar information for other states, Rhode Island counties, congressional districts, and the United States.

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

Rhode Island Percentages of Ancestry of Population Population in 2021
Other Groups
Irish
Unclassified
Italian
English
French (except Basque)
Portuguese
German
French Canadian
American
Rhode Island Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Other Groups 257419 23.57
Irish 185945 17.03
Unclassified 181604 16.63
Italian 169515 15.52
English 115384 10.57
French (except Basque) 89632 8.21
Portuguese 83002 7.60
German 53504 4.90
French Canadian 49589 4.54
American 37260 3.41
Polish 36411 3.33
Subsaharan African 32785 3.00
Cape Verdean 17660 1.62
Scottish 17479 1.60
Swedish 14336 1.31
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 9683 0.89
Russian 9033 0.83
European 8473 0.78
Greek 7297 0.67
Armenian 5778 0.53
African 5373 0.49
British 5257 0.48
Haitian 5237 0.48
Scotch Irish 4895 0.45
Dutch 4836 0.44
Nigerian 4679 0.43
Eastern European 3874 0.36
Lebanese 3769 0.35
Lithuanian 3496 0.32
Liberian 3443 0.32
Norwegian 3397 0.31
Canadian 3373 0.31
Ukrainian 3283 0.30
Welsh 3038 0.28
Jamaican 2530 0.23
Hungarian 2297 0.21
Brazilian 2038 0.19
Syrian 1870 0.17
Scandinavian 1651 0.15
Austrian 1542 0.14
Czech 1498 0.14
Finnish 1281 0.12
Romanian 1272 0.12
Danish 1221 0.11
Egyptian 1147 0.11
Swiss 1139 0.10
Belgian 1021 0.09
Albania 909 0.08
Arab 800 0.07
West Indian 719 0.07
Slovak 704 0.06
Northern European 622 0.06
Czechoslovakian 524 0.05
Turkish 486 0.05
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 469 0.04
Senegalese 459 0.04
Croatian 444 0.04
British West Indian 398 0.04
Guyanese 370 0.03
Moroccan 355 0.03
Latvian 292 0.03
Iranian 285 0.03
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 265 0.02
Icelander 244 0.02
Barbadian 240 0.02
Bulgarian 233 0.02
Australian 229 0.02
Jordanian 219 0.02
Israeli 212 0.02
Pennsylvania German 192 0.02
Basque 143 0.01
Ghanaian 132 0.01
Sierra Leonean 126 0.01
Iraqi 122 0.01
Slavic 118 0.01
South African 112 0.01
Macedonian 100 0.01
Palestinian 82 0.01
Serbian 79 0.01
Bermudan 78 0.01
Ethiopian 73 0.01
Cajun 72 0.01
German Russian 62 0.01
Cypriot 61 0.01
Celtic 59 0.01
Yugoslavian 57 0.01
Maltese 56 0.01
Luxembourger 53 0.01
Slovene 53 0.01
Belizean 51 0.01
Kenyan 49 0.00
Dutch West Indian 43 0.00
New Zealander 40 0.00
Alsatian 28 0.00
US Virgin Islander 27 0.00
Estonian 24 0.00
Somali 10 0.00
Soviet Union 8 0.00
Zimbabwean 8 0.00