Polk 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 713.15K Polk County, FL population, 248.30K had Other Groups ancestry (34.82%), 176.35K had Unclassified ancestry (24.73%), and 95.97K had American ancestry (13.46%).

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.

Polk County, FL Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021

Other Groups

Unclassified

American

German

English

Irish

Italian

West Indian (except Hispanic groups)

Polish

French (except Basque)

Polk County, FL Population By Ancestry in 2021

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Ancestry	Population	Percent of Pop. (%)
Other Groups	248304	34.82
Unclassified	176353	24.73
American	95967	13.46
German	58550	8.21
English	52024	7.30
Irish	49206	6.90
Italian	25458	3.57
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	19447	2.73
Polish	11553	1.62
French (except Basque)	11533	1.62
European	10105	1.42
Haitian	9754	1.37
Scottish	9319	1.31
Jamaican	6459	0.91
Dutch	5778	0.81
Scotch Irish	5532	0.78
Subsaharan African	4662	0.65
African	3912	0.55
British	3839	0.54
Swedish	3373	0.47
French Canadian	3358	0.47
Norwegian	3089	0.43
Welsh	2804	0.39
Portuguese	2025	0.28
Hungarian	2007	0.28
Canadian	1970	0.28
Russian	1943	0.27
West Indian	1177	0.17
Brazilian	1102	0.16
Czech	1055	0.15
Ukrainian	1034	0.14
Greek	1030	0.14
Danish	984	0.14
Finnish	939	0.13
Romanian	907	0.13
Lithuanian	858	0.12
Scandinavian	847	0.12
Swiss	816	0.11
Eastern European	771	0.11
Austrian	707	0.10
Croatian	623	0.09
Trinidadian and Tobagonian	611	0.09
Belgian	600	0.08
Guyanese	599	0.08
British West Indian	597	0.08
Czechoslovakian	596	0.08
Moroccan	594	0.08
Northern European	533	0.08
Slovak	452	0.06
Lebanese	405	0.06
Iranian	359	0.05
Barbadian	328	0.05
US Virgin Islander	328	0.05
Arab	248	0.04
Belizean	202	0.03
Ghanaian	190	0.03
Syrian	181	0.03
Cape Verdean	179	0.03
Nigerian	178	0.03
Pennsylvania German	164	0.02
Armenian	162	0.02
Egyptian	155	0.02
Yugoslavian	151	0.02
Turkish	114	0.02
Slavic	113	0.02
Icelander	108	0.02
Australian	89	0.01
Celtic	84	0.01
Iraqi	81	0.01
Serbian	74	0.01
South African	72	0.01
Slovene	64	0.01
Latvian	62	0.01
Liberian	61	0.01
Bahamian	50	0.01
Palestinian	45	0.01
Israeli	42	0.01
Estonian	41	0.01
Cajun	36	0.01
German Russian	34	0.01
Maltese	33	0.01
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac	32	0.005
Dutch West Indian	31	0.004
Alsatian	24	0.003
Bermudan	22	0.003
Bulgarian	21	0.003
Sierra Leonean	18	0.003
Basque	15	0.002
Albania	14	0.002
Carpatho Rusyn	14	0.002
Kenyan	9	0.001
Ethiopian	7	0.001
New Zealander	6	0.001
Somali	4	0.001