Over Half of White Population Reported Being English, German or Irish

For the first time ever, respondents to the 2020 Census who reported White as a race could write in more details such as Italian, Palestinian or Cajun.

Together, the English (46.6 million), German (45 million), and Irish (38.6 million) alone or in any combination populations made up over half of the White alone or in combination population in 2020.

Among those who identified as White alone or in combination, English (46.6 million), German (45 million), and Irish (38.6 million) were the largest groups.

The addition of a new write-in area for collecting detailed White responses was one of the improvements made to the 2020 Census race question design. As a result, data are now available from the decennial census for 104 detailed White groups, including Lithuanian, Irish, Libyan, Syrian, Pennsylvania Dutch and Australian.

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) responses, such as Lebanese and Moroccan, were included with the White category, following the standards [PDF <1.0 MB] set by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in 1997, which classify MENA responses as part of the White racial category.

Detailed responses from the race question are tabulated in two ways: race alone and race alone or in any combination. The alone population includes those who reported only one response to the race question, such as Austrian. The alone or in any combination population includes those who reported one or more responses to the race question such as only Austrian or Austrian and German or Austrian and Asian.

In the 2020 Census, over 235 million people reported they were White alone or in combination with another race group, such as Black or African American.

As our country’s demographics change and the nation becomes more multiracial, it’s important to understand the composition of the race alone and race alone or in any combination populations.

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