Demographics of Arizona

The perimeters of Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott, Scottsdale, Flagstaff and Yuma border on Native American reservations.

The largest ancestry groups in Arizona are Mexican (25.8%), German (16.5%), English (10.3%), Irish (10.9%), and Native American (4.5%).

Asian Americans also made major contributions to the development of Arizona, such as the many Chinese who arrived in the state's mines and railroads, and the fact that over 20,000 Japanese Americans, mostly residing in the Grand Avenue section of Phoenix and farming areas of southern Arizona and the Colorado River valley, were interned during World War II.

Arizona is projected to become a minority-majority state by the year 2027,[14] if current population growth trends continue.

Note: Births in the table don't add up, because Hispanics are counted both by their ethnicity and by their race, giving a higher overall number.

In total, 27.1% (1,567,548) of Arizona's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.

[25] Arizona is home to the largest number of speakers of Native American languages in the 48 contiguous states.

Arizona's Apache County has the highest concentration of speakers of Native American Indian languages in the United States.