Shawnee County, KS Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 179.05K Shawnee County, KS population, 44.75K had Other Groups ancestry (24.99%), 42.02K had Unclassified ancestry (23.47%), and 39.86K had German ancestry (22.26%).

The chart below shows the top 10 ancestry groups, and the table below shows both the number and percentages for all ancestry groups.

You can see similar information for other Kansas counties, and for Kansas.

Shawnee County, KS Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
Other Groups
Unclassified
German
English
Irish
American
European
French (except Basque)
Swedish
Italian
Shawnee County, KS Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Other Groups 44749 24.99
Unclassified 42022 23.47
German 39863 22.26
English 33958 18.97
Irish 17652 9.86
American 8045 4.49
European 4329 2.42
French (except Basque) 3218 1.80
Swedish 3060 1.71
Italian 2642 1.48
Scottish 2409 1.35
Dutch 2168 1.21
Polish 2166 1.21
Norwegian 1760 0.98
British 1196 0.67
Scotch Irish 1134 0.63
Welsh 1044 0.58
Danish 954 0.53
Czech 762 0.43
Swiss 735 0.41
Subsaharan African 628 0.35
Scandinavian 503 0.28
African 435 0.24
French Canadian 422 0.24
Russian 421 0.24
Czechoslovakian 302 0.17
Eastern European 299 0.17
Croatian 284 0.16
Austrian 252 0.14
Ukrainian 238 0.13
Northern European 235 0.13
Portuguese 233 0.13
Lithuanian 227 0.13
Greek 186 0.10
Canadian 185 0.10
Hungarian 179 0.10
Kenyan 117 0.07
Pennsylvania German 95 0.05
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 85 0.05
Jamaican 85 0.05
Arab 81 0.05
Macedonian 68 0.04
Yugoslavian 66 0.04
Belgian 65 0.04
German Russian 65 0.04
Finnish 64 0.04
Armenian 63 0.04
Lebanese 60 0.03
Romanian 60 0.03
South African 55 0.03
Slovak 42 0.02
Brazilian 38 0.02
Celtic 38 0.02
Alsatian 34 0.02
Iraqi 32 0.02
Slavic 32 0.02
Latvian 20 0.01
Jordanian 18 0.01
Albania 13 0.01
Syrian 11 0.01
Carpatho Rusyn 10 0.01
Iranian 8 0.00
Nigerian 8 0.00
Luxembourger 7 0.00
Ghanaian 7 0.00
Bulgarian 6 0.00