Kenton County, KY Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 168.26K Kenton County, KY population, 54.14K had German ancestry (32.18%), 40.05K had Unclassified ancestry (23.80%), and 30.74K had Other Groups ancestry (18.27%).

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

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Kenton County, KY Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
German
Unclassified
Other Groups
Irish
English
American
Italian
French (except Basque)
European
Scottish
Kenton County, KY Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
German 54141 32.18
Unclassified 40048 23.80
Other Groups 30739 18.27
Irish 29641 17.62
English 18884 11.22
American 10079 5.99
Italian 6105 3.63
French (except Basque) 4404 2.62
European 4309 2.56
Scottish 3306 1.97
Polish 2104 1.25
Dutch 2066 1.23
Scotch Irish 1956 1.16
British 1382 0.82
Welsh 1323 0.79
Norwegian 868 0.52
Subsaharan African 753 0.45
Scandinavian 725 0.43
Swiss 613 0.36
Greek 577 0.34
Hungarian 521 0.31
Swedish 495 0.29
French Canadian 404 0.24
Lebanese 328 0.20
Russian 297 0.18
Slovak 294 0.18
Danish 292 0.17
African 241 0.14
Czech 237 0.14
Moroccan 217 0.13
Austrian 192 0.11
Lithuanian 190 0.11
Eastern European 161 0.10
Canadian 154 0.09
Croatian 135 0.08
Palestinian 127 0.08
Arab 122 0.07
Ukrainian 117 0.07
Czechoslovakian 103 0.06
Portuguese 103 0.06
Finnish 91 0.05
Ghanaian 91 0.05
Slavic 89 0.05
Nigerian 83 0.05
Iranian 74 0.04
Northern European 71 0.04
Serbian 66 0.04
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 58 0.03
South African 57 0.03
Celtic 35 0.02
Jamaican 33 0.02
Belgian 26 0.02
Brazilian 25 0.02
Latvian 24 0.01
Romanian 24 0.01
Liberian 18 0.01
Slovene 17 0.01
German Russian 16 0.01
Haitian 16 0.01
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 15 0.01
Bulgarian 15 0.01
Albania 10 0.01
Turkish 10 0.01
Pennsylvania German 9 0.01
West Indian 9 0.01
Egyptian 8 0.01
Syrian 8 0.01
Armenian 6 0.00
Yugoslavian 6 0.00
Cajun 1 0.00