Palm Beach County, FL Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on April 15, 2025.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 1.48M Palm Beach County, FL population, 490.34K had Other Groups ancestry (33.10%), 249.68K had Unclassified ancestry (16.86%), and 133.55K had West Indian (except Hispanic groups) ancestry (9.02%).

The chart below shows the top 10 ancestry groups by percentage, and the table below shows both the population and percentages for many ancestry groups.

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

NB: People could belong to one or more ancestry groups.

Data Source: US Census Bureau.
Palm Beach County, FL Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021
Other Groups
Unclassified
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)
Irish
German
Italian
Haitian
English
American
Polish
Palm Beach County, FL Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Population Percent of Pop. (%)
Other Groups 490336 33.10
Unclassified 249676 16.86
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 133551 9.02
Irish 122226 8.25
German 121766 8.22
Italian 119608 8.07
Haitian 90047 6.08
English 86411 5.83
American 79560 5.37
Polish 54505 3.68
Russian 42662 2.88
Jamaican 34348 2.32
French (except Basque) 25681 1.73
Subsaharan African 25423 1.72
European 21418 1.45
African 20835 1.41
Scottish 16643 1.12
Eastern European 15605 1.05
Brazilian 14459 0.98
Dutch 9984 0.67
Hungarian 9897 0.67
Swedish 9208 0.62
Austrian 8272 0.56
Norwegian 7961 0.54
British 7749 0.52
Greek 7709 0.52
Scotch Irish 7318 0.49
French Canadian 7162 0.48
Portuguese 7121 0.48
Ukrainian 6456 0.44
Romanian 6287 0.42
Canadian 5981 0.40
Welsh 4436 0.30
Lithuanian 4319 0.29
Czech 3990 0.27
Lebanese 3871 0.26
Finnish 3663 0.25
Bahamian 3434 0.23
West Indian 3277 0.22
Turkish 2807 0.19
Israeli 2563 0.17
Scandinavian 2348 0.16
Slovak 2346 0.16
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 2205 0.15
Swiss 2197 0.15
Danish 1957 0.13
Armenian 1737 0.12
South African 1607 0.11
Croatian 1569 0.11
Guyanese 1430 0.10
Egyptian 1424 0.10
Iranian 1411 0.10
Arab 1279 0.09
Belgian 1244 0.08
Syrian 1164 0.08
Czechoslovakian 1128 0.08
British West Indian 1022 0.07
Serbian 900 0.06
Northern European 873 0.06
Albania 865 0.06
Bulgarian 857 0.06
Latvian 844 0.06
Nigerian 831 0.06
Moroccan 767 0.05
Yugoslavian 660 0.05
Barbadian 576 0.04
Slovene 572 0.04
Slavic 508 0.03
Australian 504 0.03
Sudanese 405 0.03
Macedonian 381 0.03
Kenyan 364 0.03
Iraqi 349 0.02
Belizean 330 0.02
Palestinian 301 0.02
Liberian 299 0.02
Celtic 291 0.02
Pennsylvania German 277 0.02
Maltese 244 0.02
Ghanaian 231 0.02
Jordanian 207 0.01
US Virgin Islander 190 0.01
Estonian 185 0.01
Senegalese 181 0.01
Basque 166 0.01
Cypriot 145 0.01
Ethiopian 127 0.01
Icelander 126 0.01
Bermudan 96 0.01
Cape Verdean 95 0.01
New Zealander 91 0.01
Afghan 77 0.01
Cajun 76 0.01
Somali 67 0.01
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 52 0.004
Luxembourger 41 0.003
Alsatian 39 0.003
German Russian 28 0.002
Dutch West Indian 23 0.002
Carpatho Rusyn 21 0.001
Soviet Union 19 0.001
Zimbabwean 12 0.001
Sierra Leonean 5 0.000