Rutherford County, TN Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on March 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 335.60K Rutherford County, TN population, 105.20K had Other Groups ancestry (31.35%), 95.52K had Unclassified ancestry (28.46%), and 34.08K had English ancestry (10.16%).

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 Tennessee counties, and for Tennessee.

Rutherford County, TN Percentages of Ancestry of Population in 2021
Other Groups
Unclassified
English
German
Irish
American
Italian
European
Scottish
Scotch Irish
Rutherford County, TN Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Number of Ancestry Percentage of Population (%)
Other Groups 105195 31.35
Unclassified 95518 28.46
English 34082 10.16
German 31076 9.26
Irish 29951 8.93
American 28641 8.53
Italian 9448 2.82
European 6656 1.98
Scottish 6384 1.90
Scotch Irish 6178 1.84
Subsaharan African 4781 1.43
French (except Basque) 4773 1.42
Polish 4507 1.34
African 3265 0.97
Welsh 2395 0.71
Egyptian 2311 0.69
Dutch 2286 0.68
Norwegian 2141 0.64
British 1987 0.59
Swedish 1578 0.47
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 1427 0.43
Russian 1002 0.30
Scandinavian 901 0.27
French Canadian 899 0.27
Finnish 821 0.25
Hungarian 719 0.21
Greek 676 0.20
Swiss 611 0.18
Iraqi 575 0.17
Nigerian 572 0.17
Austrian 521 0.16
Czech 412 0.12
Haitian 400 0.12
Jamaican 357 0.11
Yugoslavian 349 0.10
Northern European 321 0.10
Eastern European 303 0.09
Slovak 301 0.09
Ethiopian 296 0.09
Ghanaian 285 0.09
West Indian 278 0.08
Danish 262 0.08
Lithuanian 256 0.08
Ukrainian 225 0.07
Portuguese 222 0.07
Armenian 212 0.06
Palestinian 197 0.06
Czechoslovakian 182 0.05
Arab 176 0.05
Barbadian 171 0.05
Lebanese 167 0.05
Croatian 142 0.04
Canadian 140 0.04
Australian 136 0.04
Iranian 130 0.04
Romanian 116 0.04
Celtic 115 0.03
Latvian 102 0.03
Pennsylvania German 101 0.03
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 85 0.03
Belgian 84 0.03
Slovene 82 0.02
Jordanian 73 0.02
Liberian 73 0.02
Turkish 70 0.02
Sudanese 68 0.02
Serbian 65 0.02
Bulgarian 55 0.02
Slavic 55 0.02
Syrian 54 0.02
Basque 51 0.02
British West Indian 50 0.02
Bahamian 48 0.01
Cajun 47 0.01
Brazilian 40 0.01
Maltese 38 0.01
Israeli 30 0.01
Icelander 28 0.01
South African 25 0.01
Dutch West Indian 18 0.01
US Virgin Islander 12 0.00
Cypriot 9 0.00
Bermudan 8 0.00
Moroccan 7 0.00
Somali 3 0.00