Population of Delaware 2021

Population

Delaware has 853,476 residents (as of the US Census 2006), of which 72.1% are white, 20.7% African-American, 6.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.9% Asian-American and 0.3% American Indian.

Lineages

In 2014, 16.0% of the population were Irish, making it the largest group after African Americans. This is followed by the groups of German (13.5%), Italian (10.2%), English (9.3%), and Polish (4.5%).

The Lenni Lenape are an Indian minority, who Europeans also call Delawars. They were very influential during the formation of the United States.

Religion

According to a study, the current distribution of religious communities is as follows: Methodists 20%, Baptists 19%, Catholics 9%, Lutherans 4%, Presbyterians 3%, Pentecostal churches 3%, Episcopals / Anglicans 2%, Adventists 2%, Churches of Christ 1%, other Christians 3%, Muslims 2%, Jews 1%, other religions 5%, no religion 17%, no information 9%.

The first black church in the United States was founded in Delaware by the former slave Peter Spencer in 1813 as the “Union Church of Africans”.

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