About this dataset

Context

This list ranks the 50 states in the United States by Multi-Racial American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. It also highlights population changes in each states over the past five years.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates, including:

• 2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2016-2020 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Variables / Data Columns

• Rank by Multi-Racial Native American Population: This column displays the rank of states in the United States by their Multi-Racial American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population, using the most recent ACS data available.
• states: The states for which the rank is shown in the previous column.
• Multi-Racial Native American Population: The Multi-Racial Native American population of the states is shown in this column.
• % of Total states Population: This shows what percentage of the total states population identifies as Multi-Racial Native American. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• % of Total U.S. Multi-Racial Native American Population: This tells us how much of the entire United States Multi-Racial Native American population lives in that states. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• 5 Year Rank Trend: TThis column displays the rank trend across the last 5 years.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

This statistic shows the leading metropolitan areas in the United States in 2023 with the highest percentage of American Indian or Alaska Native population. Among the 81 largest metropolitan areas, Tulsa, Oklahoma was ranked first, with 14.6 percent of the population reporting as American Indian/Alaska Native in 2023.

The American Indian and Alaska Native Summary File (AIANSF) contains summary data for Native Americans derived from the 2010 Census questionnaire. Covered population and housing subjects include age, sex, tribal affiliation (enrolled or principal tribe), household relationship, household type, household size, family type, family size, group quarters and housing tenure. The data are organized in 71 tables (one variable per table cell) which are iterated for the total population, the total American Indian and Alaska Native population alone, the total American Indian and Alaska Native population alone or in combination with one or more other races, and 1,567 detailed tribes and tribal groupings. Sixty-one tables are presented down to the census tract level and 10 tables down to the county level. Altogether the tables are presented at 76 levels of observation, including the United States as a whole, regions, divisions, states, counties, county subdivisions, places, census tracts, metropolitan statistical areas/micropolitan statistical areas, congressional districts (111th Congress), state legislative districts, school districts, 5-digit ZIP code tabulation areas, American Indian Areas/Alaska Native Areas/Hawaiian Home Lands, tribal subdivisions and tribal census tracts. In the Census Bureau's nomenclature, the population group iterations are called "characteristic iterations" and levels of observation are called "summary levels." The AIANSF tables are also presented for geographic components of some summary levels, e.g., all federally-recognized American Indian reservations collectively within each state or the nation as a whole; all metropolitan statistical areas collectively within each state or the nation as a whole, and the principal cities of metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas. AIANSF contains 17,271 data files: a file with geographic identification variables (the geographic header record file) and 11 files with the population and housing variables for each characteristic iteration. Together with the data files, the Census Bureau prepared a codebook, Microsoft Access database shell and additional documentation. ICPSR provides the data files in a ZIP archive and the database shell and additional documentation in a second ZIP archive

This map shows the percentage of American Indian or Alaska Native population in the US (Non-Hispanic or Latino). The pattern is shown by states, counties, and Census tracts. Zoom or search for anywhere in the US to see a local pattern. Click on an area to learn more. Filter to your area and save a new version of the map to use for your own mapping purposes.The data is from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS). The figures in this map update automatically annually when the newest estimates are released by ACS. For more detailed metadata, visit the ArcGIS Living Atlas Layer: ACS Race and Hispanic Origin Variables - Boundaries.The United States Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS):About the SurveyGeography & ACSTechnical DocumentationNews & UpdatesData Note from the Census:Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data). The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.

This statistic depicts the per capita cannabis market size among Native Americans in the United States in 2018, broken down by state. California, which has the largest cannabis market among all U.S. states, has a market size of about ***** U.S. dollars per Native American living in California.

About this dataset

Context

This list ranks the 3065 counties in the United States by Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. It also highlights population changes in each counties over the past five years.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates, including:

• 2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2016-2020 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Variables / Data Columns

• Rank by Hispanic Native American Population: This column displays the rank of counties in the United States by their Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population, using the most recent ACS data available.
• counties: The counties for which the rank is shown in the previous column.
• Hispanic Native American Population: The Hispanic Native American population of the counties is shown in this column.
• % of Total counties Population: This shows what percentage of the total counties population identifies as Hispanic Native American. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• % of Total U.S. Hispanic Native American Population: This tells us how much of the entire United States Hispanic Native American population lives in that counties. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• 5 Year Rank Trend: TThis column displays the rank trend across the last 5 years.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

This statistic shows the leading U.S. states with the highest number of American Indian or Alaska Native population in 2013. According to the source, California raked highest, with more than 709 thousand inhabitants of Native American origins.

The share of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in Australia in 2019 was highest in New South Wales with around 33 percent of the indigenous population in Australia living there. Comparatively, the Australian Capital Territory accounted for only one percent of the country's indigenous population in that year.

Graph and download economic data for Population Estimate, Total, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian and Alaska Native Alone (5-year estimate) in Jersey County, IL (B03002015E017083) from 2009 to 2023 about Jersey County, IL; St. Louis; AK; American Indian; IL; latino; hispanic; estimate; persons; 5-year; population; and USA.

At the 2021 Australian census, 278,043 people in New South Wales were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. New South Wales is Australia’s most populated state, also housing Australia’s largest city, Sydney. By comparison, Australia’s second largest state, Victoria, was home to around 66 thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

There are around 800,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia, which represents just over three percent of the Australian population. Indigenous people are often referred to as Australia's first people or the traditional custodians of the land in recognition of their ancestors inhabiting Australia more than 60,000 years ago. Australia's Indigenous peoples are represented by two distinct groups. Aboriginal people come from the Australian mainland. Torres Strait Islander people inhabit the group of Islands between the northern tip of Queensland and Papua New Guinea and represent less than 40,000 people.

Closing the gap

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience significantly poorer health and wellbeing outcomes when compared to their non-Indigenous Australian counterparts. The average life expectancy of Indigenous Australians is around eight years shorter than that of the non-Indigenous population. In education, Indigenous Australians are also underrepresented, but attendance rates are improving and in 2019, full-time Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students numbered well over 200,000 people.

United States Employment: American Indian or Alaska Native data was reported at 1,784.000 Person th in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,819.000 Person th for Mar 2025. United States Employment: American Indian or Alaska Native data is updated monthly, averaging 1,329.500 Person th from Jan 2000 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 304 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,980.000 Person th in Feb 2025 and a record low of 837.000 Person th in Oct 2003. United States Employment: American Indian or Alaska Native data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G: Current Population Survey: Employment.

The Bureau of the Census has released Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF1) 100-Percent data. The file includes the following population items: sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino origin, household relationship, and household and family characteristics. Housing items include occupancy status and tenure (whether the unit is owner or renter occupied). SF1 does not include information on incomes, poverty status, overcrowded housing or age of housing. These topics will be covered in Summary File 3. Data are available for states, counties, county subdivisions, places, census tracts, block groups, and, where applicable, American Indian and Alaskan Native Areas and Hawaiian Home Lands. The SF1 data are available on the Bureau's web site and may be retrieved from American FactFinder as tables, lists, or maps. Users may also download a set of compressed ASCII files for each state via the Bureau's FTP server. There are over 8000 data items available for each geographic area. The full listing of these data items is available here as a downloadable compressed data base file named TABLES.ZIP. The uncompressed is in FoxPro data base file (dbf) format and may be imported to ACCESS, EXCEL, and other software formats. While all of this information is useful, the Office of Community Planning and Development has downloaded selected information for all states and areas and is making this information available on the CPD web pages. The tables and data items selected are those items used in the CDBG and HOME allocation formulas plus topics most pertinent to the Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS), the Consolidated Plan, and similar overall economic and community development plans. The information is contained in five compressed (zipped) dbf tables for each state. When uncompressed the tables are ready for use with FoxPro and they can be imported into ACCESS, EXCEL, and other spreadsheet, GIS and database software. The data are at the block group summary level. The first two characters of the file name are the state abbreviation. The next two letters are BG for block group. Each record is labeled with the code and name of the city and county in which it is located so that the data can be summarized to higher-level geography. The last part of the file name describes the contents . The GEO file contains standard Census Bureau geographic identifiers for each block group, such as the metropolitan area code and congressional district code. The only data included in this table is total population and total housing units. POP1 and POP2 contain selected population variables and selected housing items are in the HU file. The MA05 table data is only for use by State CDBG grantees for the reporting of the racial composition of beneficiaries of Area Benefit activities. The complete package for a state consists of the dictionary file named TABLES, and the five data files for the state. The logical record number (LOGRECNO) links the records across tables.

Vintage 2024 Population projections by race, sex and age group for North Carolina. Includes population by race (American Indian/Alaska Native), Asian, Black, White, Other (includes persons identified as two or more races).

About this dataset

Context

This list ranks the 67 counties in the Florida by American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. It also highlights population changes in each counties over the past five years.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates, including:

• 2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2016-2020 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Variables / Data Columns

• Rank by Native American Population: This column displays the rank of counties in the Florida by their American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) population, using the most recent ACS data available.
• counties: The counties for which the rank is shown in the previous column.
• Native American Population: The Native American population of the counties is shown in this column.
• % of Total counties Population: This shows what percentage of the total counties population identifies as Native American. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• % of Total Florida Native American Population: This tells us how much of the entire Florida Native American population lives in that counties. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• 5 Year Rank Trend: TThis column displays the rank trend across the last 5 years.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Relative concentration of the Northern California region's American Indian population. The variable AIANALN records all individuals who select American Indian or Alaska Native as their SOLE racial identity in response to the Census questionnaire, regardless of their response to the Hispanic ethnicity question. Both Hispanic and non-Hispanic in the Census questionnaire are potentially associated with American Indian / Alaska Native race alone. IMPORTANT: this self reported ancestry and Tribal membership are distinct identities and one does not automatically imply the other. These data should not be interpreted as a distribution of "Tribal people." Numerous Rancherias in the Northern California region account for the wide distribution of very to extremely high concentrations of American Indians outside the San Francisco Bay Area.

"Relative concentration" is a measure that compares the proportion of population within each Census block group data unit that identify as American Indian / Alaska Native alone to the proportion of all people that live within the 1,207 block groups in the Northern California RRK region that identify as American Indian / Alaska native alone. Example: if 5.2% of people in a block group identify as AIANALN, the block group has twice the proportion of AIANALN individuals compared to the Northern California RRK region (2.6%), and more than three times the proportion compared to the entire state of California (1.6%). If the local proportion is twice the regional proportion, then AIANALN individuals are highly concentrated locally.

Graph and download economic data for Population Estimate, Total, Not Hispanic or Latino, American Indian and Alaska Native Alone (5-year estimate) in Forsyth County, GA (B03002005E013117) from 2009 to 2023 about Forsyth County, GA; Atlanta; Native Alaskan; American Indian; GA; non-hispanic; estimate; persons; 5-year; population; and USA.

The 1980 American Indian supplementary file provides information on the American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut populations beyond that obtained from the regular 1980 census questionnaire. The questionnaire was used on all federal and state reservations and in the historic areas of Oklahoma (excluding urbanized areas) to obtain information about the unique living conditions present on many reservations and in those specified areas of Oklahoma. Population items from the supplementary questionnaire include: tribal affiliation, educational attainment, health services received, occupation, work history, benefits received, and income. Housing items include: source of water, source of heat, kitchen facilities, telephone, electrical lighting, and materials and age of structure.

Native or indigenous people in the United States are often referred to as American Indian, Indian, or Native American. This text uses Native American as we are discussing many different peoples. Everyone has preferences on how they would like to be addressed regardless of ethnicity and it is always best to ask their preferences.Before Europeans wondered into the Americas, it was home to millions of people. These people had their own cultures, customs, languages, and religions. First contact with Europeans may have been peaceful, but Native American’s immune systems were not prepared for the biological attack of germs carried by the colonizers. In the decades that followed, infectious diseases, such as the flu, measles, and smallpox, killed an estimated 70 percent or more Native Americans.Overtime, as more and more European’s colonized North America, they needed more land and resources. This put them into conflict with the Native Americans. Some of these conflicts became violent and others resulted in treaties, where the colonizers promised to give the Native Americans things in exchange for their land, pushing them further and further west.On March 28, 1830, the U.S. Congress passed, and President Andrew Jackson signed, the Indian Removal Act. This act authorized the president of the United States to grant desirable tribal land to white colonizers and remove Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to land deemed undesirable to the west by force. The Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, Cherokee, and Creek peoples adopted some of the customs of the colonizers to coexist peacefully and retain their land. Some groups tried legal actions going all the way to the Supreme Court to combat legislation designed to steal their land. The Cherokee won one such challenge. However, state officials and President Andrew Jackson refused to uphold the Supreme Court’s ruling. When this and other non-violent tactics failed, some groups went to war to protect their homelands. The U.S. military eventually forced more than 100,000 Native Americans to march, some in chains, to the designated “Indian Territory” or reservation land. Many died on what is today referred to as the Trail of Tears.Nearly sixty years later, the Dawes Act (also called the Dawes Severalty Act or the General Allotment Act) was passed in 1887 and signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. This act broke up tribal lands into individual parcels awarded to the head of each family and required Native Americans to register with the Office of Indian Affairs. The Office of Indian Affairs was renamed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1947. The United States government wanted Native Americans to assimilate with the culture of the colonizers. In exchange for accepting this plan Native Americans were granted U.S. citizenship. Up to this point the original residents of the land occupied by the United States, had not been considered citizens of the country. This act further reduced the amount of held by Native Americans as each family was only eligible to receive 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land. However, much of the land awarded was suitable for neither farming nor grazing. Before the Dawes Act, Native Americans controlled about 150 million acres or land but after they only had approximately 90 million acres.Then during the Great Depression and the New Deal era, the Indian Reorganization Act—or the Wheeler-Howard Act—was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 18, 1934. This law was passes with the intent to correct the damage done to Native American communities by the assimilation dictates of the Dawes Act. Passed during the New Deal era, the act ended the allotment of tribal land and in some cases returned land to the Native Americans, recognized the right of Native Americans to self-govern, created loan programs for the creation of businesses by individuals, and added a hiring preference in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This act initially did not apply to peoples in Alaska but that was corrected with the passing of an amendment in 1936.This map layer was created using data from the United States Census Bureau. It depicts the Federal American Indian reservations. According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs a “reservation is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal government holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe.” Not every federally recognized Native American group has a reservation. The largest reservation (16 million acres) is the Navajo Nation Reservation in the state of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, and the smallest reservation (1.32 acres) is the Pit River Tribe’s cemetery in California.

Graph and download economic data for Population Estimate, Total, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian and Alaska Native Alone (5-year estimate) in Chester County, SC (B03002015E045023) from 2009 to 2023 about Chester County, SC; AK; American Indian; SC; latino; hispanic; estimate; persons; 5-year; population; and USA.

United States Unemployment Rate: American Indian or Alaska Native data was reported at 5.500 % in Apr 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 6.600 % for Mar 2025. United States Unemployment Rate: American Indian or Alaska Native data is updated monthly, averaging 9.150 % from Jan 2000 (Median) to Apr 2025, with 304 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 28.600 % in Apr 2020 and a record low of 3.900 % in Mar 2024. United States Unemployment Rate: American Indian or Alaska Native data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G: Current Population Survey: Unemployment Rate.