US Population by Race

"In the 2010 Census, 97 percent of all respondents (299.7 million) reported only one race (see Table 1).¹⁰ The largest group reported White alone (223.6 million), accounting for 72 percent of all people living in the United States.¹¹ The Black or African-American alone population was 38.9 million and represented 13 percent of the total population.¹² There were 2.9 million respondents who indicated American Indian and Alaska Native alone (0.9 percent). Approximately 14.7 million (about 5 percent of all respondents) identified their race as Asian alone."