Major ethnic groups of European ancestry in Denver include: Germans (14.7%), British (11.3%), Irish (9.9%), Italian (3.9%), French (2.8%), and Polish (2.1%).
[9] In honor of these frontiersmen, Paul Stewert created the Black American West Museum in Denver.
[11] In the 1940s through the 1950s, jazz clubs in Five Points provided popular venues for famous African American musicians.
Sakura Square in downtown Denver was founded in 1944 by formerly-interned Japanese Americans migrating from the West Coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California.
In the city of Denver, the largest populations of Jews are found in the West Colfax and Hilltop neighborhoods.
[15] [failed verification] The heritage of many generations of Jewish Denverites is very visible in the city, and its many landmarks (several prominent synagogues among them).
The top non-English languages spoken in Denver are Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali and Amharic.
[18] According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, residents of Denver had a 2014 life expectancy of 80.02 years.