This is a list of per capita income for U.S. residents, organized by race and ethnicity and ancestry (as of 2015).
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$33,831 in 2018.[2]
Alone! | Alone or in Combination with Other Races | Ref | ||||||
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Code | Population | Per capita income (US$) | Code | Population | Per capita income (US$) | |||
White | 002 | 236,173,020 | 36,962 | 003 | 245,860,228 | 36,292 | [3] | |
Black or African American | 004 | 41,617,764 | 23,303 | 005 | 46,261,485 | 22,502 | [4] | |
Asian | 012 | 18,415,198 | 40,878 | 031 | 22,137,269 | 38,130 | [5] | |
Some other race | 070 | 16,253,785 | 19,162 | 071 | 18,146,776 | 19,298 | [6] | |
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) | — | — | — | 400 | 59,763,631 | 20,590 | [7] | |
Not Hispanic or Latino | — | — | — | 450 | 267,403,808 | 36,790 |
In the 2018 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Asian races are reported.[8] Other Asian races with code but not reported include: Malaysian (025, 044), Sri Lankan (027, 046), Bhutanese (072, 080), Maldivian (074, 082), Mongolian (075, 083), Okinawan (077, 085), Singaporean (078, 086).
Alone! | Alone or in Combination with Other Races | ||||||
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Code | Population | Per capita income (US$) | Code | Population | Per capita income (US$) | ||
Indian | 013 | 4,161,088 | 55,298 | 032 | 4,506,308 | 54,981 | |
Bangladeshi | 014 | 203,845 | 24,054 | 033 | 213,372 | 24,134 | |
Cambodian | 015 | 240,379 | 24,921 | 034 | 300,360 | 22,257 | |
016 | 4,395,912 | 43,583 | 035 | 5,357,756 | 40,744 | ||
017 | 4,217,892 | 43,104 | 036 | 5,156,833 | 40,409 | ||
Taiwanese | 018 | 178,020 | 54,928 | 037 | 213,774 | 49,124 | |
Filipino | 019 | 2,920,160 | 36,183 | 038 | 4,089,570 | 32,124 | |
Hmong | 020 | 305,323 | 19,155 | 039 | 320,164 | 18,600 | |
Indonesian | 021 | 70,851 | 32,256 | 040 | 116,869 | 30,858 | |
Japanese | 022 | 782,776 | 50,617 | 041 | 1,542,195 | 39,940 | |
Korean | 023 | 1,468,279 | 41,385 | 042 | 1,894,131 | 37,126 | |
Laotian | 024 | 203,494 | 25,939 | 043 | 262,229 | 22,512 | |
Pakistani | 026 | 487,937 | 33,322 | 045 | 526,956 | 32,608 | |
Thai | 028 | 218,514 | 31,077 | 047 | 329,343 | 27,660 | |
Vietnamese | 029 | 1,862,395 | 29,413 | 048 | 2,162,610 | 28,076 | |
Burmese | 073 | 178,490 | 16,603 | 081 | 189,250 | 17,181 | |
Nepalese | 076 | 167,468 | 23,419 | 084 | 175,005 | 22,925 |
In the 2018 American Community Survey, the following figures regarding detailed Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander races are reported.[9]
Alone! | Alone or in Combination with Other Races | ||||||
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Code | Population | Per capita income (US$) | Code | Population | Per capita income (US$) | ||
Polynesian | 051 | 357,532 | 25,715 | 061 | 887,467 | 25,206 | |
Native Hawaiian | 052 | 186,996 | 29,771 | 062 | 626,457 | 27,078 | |
Samoan | 053 | 110,606 | 21,630 | 063 | 213,439 | 20,090 | |
Micronesian | 055 | 188,142 | 24,116 | 065 | 284,452 | 22,925 | |
Guamanian or Chamorro | 056 | 104,219 | 31,279 | 066 | 182,584 | 27,312 |
NB: The list of ethnic groups (by ancestry) seems to have been arbitrarily curated, since it excludes many Asian-American ethnic groups whose per capita incomes are significantly higher than those listed below. In addition, the table omits Americans of Native American ancestry as well as Americans of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.
Rank | Ancestry | Population (2014) | Per capita income (2014 US$) Aguga |
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1 | 57,221 | 50,818[10] | |
2 | 2,762,830 | 50,684 | |
3 | Latvian | 87,817 | 50,137 |
4 | British (not otherwise specified) | 1,326,960 | 49,202 |
5 | 652,790 | 46,532 | |
6 | 178,273 | 45,317 | |
7 | 98,397 | 44,681 | |
8 | 702,772 | 44,098 | |
9 | 452,815 | 43,173 | |
10 | 5,365,154 | 42,194 | |
11 | Croatian | 419,647 | 41,425 |
12 | Romanian | 459,810 | 41,411 |
13 | Hungarian | 1,406,350 | 41,055 |
14 | Slovak | 706,662 | 41,036 |
15 | Belgian | 350,059 | 41,021 |
16 | Swiss | 939,268 | 41,000 |
17 | Welsh | 1,757,657 | 40,704 |
18 | Danish | 1,275,222 | 39,883 |
19 | Israeli | 148,514 | 39,864 |
20 | Ukrainian | 984,157 | 39,785 |
21 | Syrian | 170,066 | 39,713 |
22 | Canadian | 678,113 | 39,651 |
23 | Serbian | 181,171 | 38,981 |
24 | Lebanese | 506,470 | 38,971 |
25 | Scotch-Irish | 2,978,827 | 38,748 |
26 | English | 24,382,182 | 38,525 |
27 | Bulgarian | 90,981 | 37,560 |
28 | Polish | 9,249,392 | 37,413 |
29 | Norwegian | 4,444,566 | 36,866 |
30 | Turkish | 206,911 | 36,483 |
31 | Italian | 17,063,646 | 35,235 |
32 | German | 46,047,113 | 34,943 |
33 | Armenian | 461,076 | 34,402 |
34 | Finnish | 635,566 | 34,343 |
35 | Irish | 33,147,639 | 34,196 |
36 | Dutch | 4,243,067 | 34,160 |
37 | French (excluding Basques) | 8,153,515 | 33,818 |
38 | Egyptian | 239,108 | 32,466 |
39 | Portuguese | 1,340,026 | 32,194 |
40 | Barbadian | 63,455 | 30,797 |
41 | Cajun | 112,588 | 29,778 |
42 | Palestinian | 122,533 | 27,059 |
43 | 322,231 | 26,881 | |
44 | 117,247 | 25,871 | |
45 | American (not otherwise specified) | 22,097,012 | 25,825 |
46 | 234,591 | 25,513 | |
47 | 368,782 | 25,142 | |
48 | 1,087,185 | 24,604 | |
49 | 299,817 | 24,369 | |
50 | 186,030 | 24,276 | |
51 | 107,056 | 22,255 | |
52 | 101,211 | 21,253 | |
53 | 80,120 | 21,222 | |
54 | 106,316 | 20,314 | |
55 | Black (not otherwise specified) | 1,825,077 | 20,226 |
56 | 143,397 | 18,668 | |
57 | 97,865 | 18,516 | |
58 | 984,514 | 17,592 | |