Table 4. Size, immigrant share, and English proficiency of U.S. ethnic groups, 2008-10.
| Ethnic/pan-ethnic groups | N | % of U.S. population | % foreign- born | Speaks English*… | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| only | very well | not well or at all | ||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 199,925,233 | 65.2 | 3.8% | 94.2% | 4.1% | 0.7% |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 39,405,797 | 12.8 | 7.7% | 93.1% | 4.6% | 0.9% |
| Latin American origins: | ||||||
| Mexican | 32,054,091 | 10.4 | 36.2% | 24.3% | 38.8% | 22.9% |
| Puerto Rican (in mainland) | 4,562,169 | 1.5 | 1.1% | 34.9% | 46.5% | 8.3% |
| Cuban | 1,760,256 | 0.6 | 58.9% | 17.6% | 41.4% | 27.2% |
| Dominican | 1,421,609 | 0.5 | 57.1% | 8.8% | 45.6% | 28.8% |
| Salvadoran, Guatemalan | 2,811,922 | 0.9 | 65.5% | 8.7% | 34.3% | 37.7% |
| Colombian | 943,989 | 0.3 | 65.8% | 13.4% | 45.3% | 20.2% |
| Peruvian, Ecuadorian | 1,201,984 | 0.4 | 66.7% | 11.3% | 41.9% | 25.6% |
| Other Central/South American | 2,169,199 | 0.7 | 64.5% | 15.9% | 42.8% | 23.4% |
| Asian origins: | ||||||
| Chinese | 3,369,879 | 1.1 | 69.0% | 18.0% | 36.4% | 23.8% |
| Asian Indian | 2,831,277 | 0.9 | 72.6% | 20.3% | 57.7% | 7.3% |
| Filipino | 2,590,676 | 0.8 | 66.0% | 32.9% | 45.0% | 5.2% |
| Vietnamese | 1,601,842 | 0.5 | 68.0% | 12.1% | 34.8% | 28.9% |
| Korean | 1,492,080 | 0.5 | 74.1% | 21.8% | 32.8% | 22.5% |
| Japanese | 816,299 | 0.3 | 40.2% | 55.6% | 20.7% | 9.0% |
| Cambodian/Hmong/Laotian | 734,354 | 0.2 | 54.3% | 14.7% | 43.0% | 22.1% |
| Other Asian | 1,227,546 | 0.4 | 59.1% | 27.4% | 41.6% | 11.5% |
| All other ethnic groups | 5,818,232 | 1.9 | 12.2% | 65.3% | 25.4% | 3.7% |
| Total population | 306,738,434 | 100.0 | 12.8% | 79.7% | 11.6% | 4.7% |
*
Asked of those speaking a language other than English at home (ages 5 and older).
Source: American Community Survey (ACS), 2008-2010 merged files.