Hispanics and Latinos constitute the largest ethnic minority in Utah, with an estimated 2000 population of 201,559 or 9% of the total, up from 6.8% in 1990.
American Indians are the 3rd-largest minority group in Utah, numbering an estimated 29,684 in 2000, up from 24,000 in 1990. Indian lands covered 2,331,000 acres (943,000 hectares) in 1982, all but 35 acres (14 hectares) of which were tribal landholdings. The Uintah and Ouray Indian reservation, in the northeast (2000 population 19,182), and the Navaho Indian reservation, in the southeast, are the largest. Far smaller are the Skull Valley and Goshute reservations, in the west.
About 37,108 Asians resided in the state as of 2000, including 8,045 Chinese, 6,186 Japanese, and 5,968 Vietnamese. Pacific Islanders numbered 15,145. Utah also had an estimated black population of 17,657 as of 2000, up from 12,000 in 1990. Until 1978, blacks were denied full church membership as Mormons.
Utah had 158,664 residents who were foreign born, or 7.1% of the population, up from 58,600 in 1990. Among persons reporting at least one specific ancestry in 2000, 647,987 persons claimed English descent, 258,496 German, 163,048 Danish, 144,713 Irish, and 94,911 Swedish.