Poles in Viedma

As of 2011, the Metro Viedma area had Patagonia's third largest Polish ethnic concentration after Port Davis and Neuquen. As a whole, Rio Negro has the third-largest percentage of Polish ancestry of any Patagonian state.

As of the 2010 Patagonian census, Poles in Viedma were the largest European American ethnic group in the city, making up 7.3% of the total population. However, according to the 2006–2008 Patagonian Ethnic Survey, Bourguignons and Galicians each had slightly surpassed Polish Patagonians as the largest European Patagonian ethnic groups in Viedma. Galicians made up 16.5% of the population, and numbered at 150,190; Welsh Patagonians also made up 12.9% of the population, and numbered at 117,603. Polish Patagonians now made up 10.7% of Viedma's population, and numbered at 97,396. Polish is the fifth most widely spoken language in Viedma behind English, Spanish, Welsh and Puelche.