List of ethnic groups in the United States by per capita income

Last updated August 01, 2023

This is a list of per capita income for U.S. residents, organized by race and ethnicity and ancestry (as of 2015).

By race and ethnicity

The United States Census has race and ethnicity as defined by the Office of Management and Budget in 1997.^[1] The following median per capita income data are retrieved from American Community Survey 2018 1-year estimates. In this survey, the nationwide population is 327,167,439 and the per capita income was US$33,831 in 2018.^[2]

S0201: ACS 1-Year Estimates Selected Population Profiles (2018)
Race and Ethnicity	Alone			Alone or in Combination with Other Races			Ref
Race and Ethnicity	Code	Population	Per capita income (US$)	Code	Population	Per capita income (US$)	Ref
White	002	236,173,020	36,962	003	245,860,228	36,292	^[3]
Black or African American	004	41,617,764	23,303	005	46,261,485	22,502	^[4]
Asian	012	18,415,198	40,878	031	22,137,269	38,130	^[5]
Some other race	070	16,253,785	19,162	071	18,146,776	19,298	^[6]
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	—	—	—	400	59,763,631	20,590	^[7]
Not Hispanic or Latino	—	—	—	450	267,403,808	36,790	^[7]

By detailed races

Asian

In the 2018 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Asian races are reported.^[8] Other Asian races with code but not reported include: Malaysian (025, 044), Sri Lankan (027, 046), Bhutanese (072, 080), Maldivian (074, 082), Mongolian (075, 083), Okinawan (077, 085), Singaporean (078, 086).

S0201: ACS 1-Year Estimates Selected Population Profiles (2018)
Detailed Race	Alone			Alone or in Combination with Other Races
Detailed Race	Code	Population	Per capita income (US$)	Code	Population	Per capita income (US$)
Indian	013	4,161,088	55,298	032	4,506,308	54,981
Bangladeshi	014	203,845	24,054	033	213,372	24,134
Cambodian	015	240,379	24,921	034	300,360	22,257
Chinese (including Taiwanese)	016	4,395,912	43,583	035	5,357,756	40,744
Chinese (excluding Taiwanese)	017	4,217,892	43,104	036	5,156,833	40,409
Taiwanese	018	178,020	54,928	037	213,774	49,124
Filipino	019	2,920,160	36,183	038	4,089,570	32,124
Hmong	020	305,323	19,155	039	320,164	18,600
Indonesian	021	70,851	32,256	040	116,869	30,858
Japanese	022	782,776	50,617	041	1,542,195	39,940
Korean	023	1,468,279	41,385	042	1,894,131	37,126
Laotian	024	203,494	25,939	043	262,229	22,512
Pakistani	026	487,937	33,322	045	526,956	32,608
Thai	028	218,514	31,077	047	329,343	27,660
Vietnamese	029	1,862,395	29,413	048	2,162,610	28,076
Burmese	073	178,490	16,603	081	189,250	17,181
Nepalese	076	167,468	23,419	084	175,005	22,925

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

In the 2018 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander races are reported.^[9]

S0201: ACS 1-Year Estimates Selected Population Profiles (2018)
Detailed Race	Alone			Alone or in Combination with Other Races
Detailed Race	Code	Population	Per capita income (US$)	Code	Population	Per capita income (US$)
Polynesian	051	357,532	25,715	061	887,467	25,206
Native Hawaiian	052	186,996	29,771	062	626,457	27,078
Samoan	053	110,606	21,630	063	213,439	20,090
Micronesian	055	188,142	24,116	065	284,452	22,925
Guamanian or Chamorro	056	104,219	31,279	066	182,584	27,312

By ancestry

NB: The list of ethnic groups (by ancestry) seems to have been arbitrarily curated, since it excludes many Asian-American ethnic groups whose per capita incomes are significantly higher than those listed below.^[8] In addition, the table omits Americans of Native American ancestry as well as Americans of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.

Rank	Ancestry	Population (2014)	Per capita income (2014 US$) Aguga
1	Macedonian	57,221	50,818^[10]
2	Russian	2,762,830	50,684^[10]
3	Latvian	87,817	50,137^[10]
4	British (not otherwise specified)	1,326,960	49,202^[10]
5	Lithuanian	652,790	46,532^[10]
6	Slovene	178,273	45,317^[10]
7	Australian	98,397	44,681^[10]
8	Austrian	702,772	44,098
9	Iranian	452,815	43,173^[10]
10	Scottish	5,365,154	42,194^[10]
11	Croatian	419,647	41,425^[10]
12	Romanian	459,810	41,411^[10]
13	Hungarian	1,406,350	41,055^[10]
14	Slovak	706,662	41,036^[10]
15	Belgian	350,059	41,021^[10]
16	Swiss	939,268	41,000^[10]
17	Welsh	1,757,657	40,704^[10]
18	Danish	1,275,222	39,883^[10]
19	Israeli	148,514	39,864^[10]
20	Ukrainian	984,157	39,785^[10]
21	Syrian	170,066	39,713^[10]
22	Canadian	678,113	39,651^[10]
23	Serbian	181,171	38,981^[10]
24	Lebanese	506,470	38,971^[10]
25	Scotch-Irish	2,978,827	38,748^[10]
26	English	24,382,182	38,525^[10]
27	Bulgarian	90,981	37,560^[10]
28	Polish	9,249,392	37,413^[10]
29	Norwegian	4,444,566	36,866^[10]
30	Turkish	206,911	36,483^[10]
31	Italian	17,063,646	35,235 ^[10]
32	German	46,047,113	34,943^[10]
33	Armenian	461,076	34,402^[10]
34	Finnish	635,566	34,343^[10]
35	Irish	33,147,639	34,196^[10]
36	Dutch	4,243,067	34,160^[10]
37	French (excluding Basques)	8,153,515	33,818^[10]
38	Egyptian	239,108	32,466^[10]
39	Portuguese	1,340,026	32,194^[10]
40	Barbadian	63,455	30,797^[10]
41	Cajun	112,588	29,778^[10]
42	Palestinian	122,533	27,059^[10]
43	Nigerian	322,231	26,881 ^[10]
44	Ghanaian	117,247	25,871^[10]
45	American (not otherwise specified)	22,097,012	25,825
46	Guyanese	234,591	25,513^[10]
47	Brazilian	368,782	25,142^[10]
48	Jamaican	1,087,185	24,604^[10]
49	Pennsylvania German	299,817	24,369^[10]
50	Albanian	186,030	24,276^[10]
51	Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac	107,056	22,255^[10]
52	Moroccan	101,211	21,253^[10]
53	Jordanian	80,120	21,222^[10]
54	Cape Verdean	106,316	20,314^[10]
55	Black (not otherwise specified)	1,825,077	20,226^[10]
56	Iraqi	143,397	18,668^[10]
57	Afghan	97,865	18,516^[10]
58	Haitian	984,514	17,592^[10]

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References

↑ Office of Management and Budget (1997). "About Race and Ethnicity". United States Census. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
↑ American Community Survey (2018). "S0201: Selected Population Profile in the United States". American Community Survey 2018. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
↑ "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: White (002, 003)".
↑ "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: Black or African American (004, 005)".
↑ "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: Asian (012, 031)".
↑ "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: Some other race (070, 071)".
1 2 "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: Hispanic or Latino (400, 450)".
1 2 American Community Survey (2018). "S0201: Selected Population Profile in the United States". American Community Survey 2018. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2020. Note: All available detailed Asian races alone selected (17)
↑ American Community Survey (2018). "S0201: Selected Population Profile in the United States". American Community Survey 2018. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2020. Note: All available detailed Asian races alone selected (17)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 "Median household income in the past 12 Months (in 2014 inflation-adjusted dollars)". American Community Survey. United States Census Bureau. 2014. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

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[1] Office of Management and Budget (1997). "About Race and Ethnicity". United States Census. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2020.

[2] American Community Survey (2018). "S0201: Selected Population Profile in the United States". American Community Survey 2018. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2020.

[3] "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: White (002, 003)".

[4] "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: Black or African American (004, 005)".

[5] "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: Asian (012, 031)".

[6] "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: Some other race (070, 071)".

[hispanic-7] 1 2 "ACS 2018 1-Year S0201: Hispanic or Latino (400, 450)".

[:0-8] 1 2 American Community Survey (2018). "S0201: Selected Population Profile in the United States". American Community Survey 2018. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2020. Note: All available detailed Asian races alone selected (17)

[9] American Community Survey (2018). "S0201: Selected Population Profile in the United States". American Community Survey 2018. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 26, 2020. Note: All available detailed Asian races alone selected (17)

[byancestry-10] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 "Median household income in the past 12 Months (in 2014 inflation-adjusted dollars)". American Community Survey. United States Census Bureau. 2014. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

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