the hispanic population in las vegas is growing and has rapidly increased. most latino las vegas residents are of mexican, cuban and salvadoran descent. las vegas also has a small puerto rican, guatemalan, spaniard, peruvian, colombian, honduran, nicaraguan and argentine population. the most common european ancestries in las vegas are german, irish, italian, polish, french, scottish, russian, swedish, norwegian, dutch and welsh. filipino, korean, vietnamese, japanese, indian and chinese is the most common asian ancestries.