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

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 3.23M Utah population, 814.64K had English ancestry (25.21%), 780.29K had Other Groups ancestry (24.15%), and 661.52K had Unclassified ancestry (20.47%).

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.

Utah Percentages of Ancestry of Population Population in 2021
English
Other Groups
Unclassified
German
Irish
European
Danish
American
Scottish
Swedish
Utah Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
English 814637 25.21
Other Groups 780289 24.15
Unclassified 661516 20.47
German 328530 10.17
Irish 191873 5.94
European 164815 5.10
Danish 143949 4.46
American 142182 4.40
Scottish 129372 4.00
Swedish 104248 3.23
Italian 88312 2.73
Norwegian 71459 2.21
British 65972 2.04
Welsh 58953 1.82
Dutch 56793 1.76
French (except Basque) 55787 1.73
Scandinavian 51721 1.60
Swiss 34893 1.08
Polish 25477 0.79
Scotch Irish 25148 0.78
Subsaharan African 17935 0.56
Greek 12699 0.39
Northern European 11158 0.35
Russian 11066 0.34
Canadian 9556 0.30
Brazilian 7824 0.24
French Canadian 7581 0.24
African 6318 0.20
Finnish 6298 0.20
Portuguese 6102 0.19
Czech 5736 0.18
Hungarian 5306 0.16
Eastern European 5298 0.16
Icelander 4307 0.13
Yugoslavian 4283 0.13
Austrian 3944 0.12
Croatian 3433 0.11
Iranian 3370 0.10
Ukrainian 3103 0.10
Armenian 2945 0.09
Somali 2629 0.08
Australian 2560 0.08
Belgian 2434 0.08
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 2314 0.07
Lebanese 2222 0.07
Iraqi 2049 0.06
Basque 1953 0.06
Romanian 1916 0.06
Sudanese 1863 0.06
Lithuanian 1683 0.05
Slovak 1432 0.04
Czechoslovakian 1251 0.04
Serbian 1153 0.04
Nigerian 1053 0.03
Ethiopian 1009 0.03
Slovene 975 0.03
Slavic 938 0.03
Turkish 913 0.03
Jamaican 890 0.03
Egyptian 874 0.03
Kenyan 861 0.03
Arab 723 0.02
Syrian 702 0.02
New Zealander 689 0.02
South African 655 0.02
Afghan 631 0.02
Ghanaian 584 0.02
Haitian 541 0.02
Albania 516 0.02
Latvian 451 0.01
Moroccan 401 0.01
Israeli 388 0.01
Jordanian 354 0.01
Cape Verdean 343 0.01
Bulgarian 309 0.01
Celtic 290 0.01
Cajun 266 0.01
Pennsylvania German 261 0.01
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 254 0.01
Palestinian 234 0.01
Liberian 222 0.01
Belizean 184 0.01
Ugandan 153 0.01
British West Indian 135 0.00
Estonian 131 0.00
Maltese 128 0.00
Bahamian 119 0.00
West Indian 98 0.00
Guyanese 90 0.00
Zimbabwean 81 0.00
Luxembourger 73 0.00
German Russian 72 0.00
Macedonian 70 0.00
Dutch West Indian 59 0.00
Sierra Leonean 52 0.00
Barbadian 51 0.00
Cypriot 41 0.00
Bermudan 25 0.00
Carpatho Rusyn 24 0.00
US Virgin Islander 23 0.00
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 17 0.00
Alsatian 3 0.00