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

Updated on April 15, 2025.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 48.45K Boyd County, KY population, 15.21K had Unclassified ancestry (31.39%), 11.26K had American ancestry (23.23%), and 6.67K had English ancestry (13.77%).

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 Kentucky counties, and for Kentucky.

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

Data Source: US Census Bureau.

Boyd County, KY Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021

Unclassified

American

English

Other Groups

Irish

German

European

Scotch Irish

Italian

Scottish

Boyd County, KY Population By Ancestry in 2021

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Ancestry	Population	Percent of Pop. (%)
Unclassified	15206	31.39
American	11255	23.23
English	6671	13.77
Other Groups	6414	13.24
Irish	5166	10.66
German	4540	9.37
European	1275	2.63
Scotch Irish	1045	2.16
Italian	757	1.56
Scottish	738	1.52
French (except Basque)	508	1.05
Welsh	377	0.78
Dutch	337	0.70
British	261	0.54
Greek	217	0.45
Polish	172	0.36
Hungarian	141	0.29
Eastern European	75	0.16
Portuguese	52	0.11
Canadian	44	0.09
Jordanian	36	0.07
Finnish	36	0.07
Russian	34	0.07
Moroccan	27	0.06
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	25	0.05
Swiss	24	0.05
Slavic	21	0.04
Subsaharan African	21	0.04
African	21	0.04
Scandinavian	18	0.04
Jamaican	18	0.04
Iranian	17	0.04
Swedish	17	0.04
Pennsylvania German	16	0.03
Czechoslovakian	15	0.03
Norwegian	15	0.03
Danish	13	0.03
Austrian	12	0.03
Maltese	12	0.03
Ukrainian	12	0.03
Belgian	11	0.02
Northern European	9	0.02
Czech	7	0.01
Haitian	7	0.01
Celtic	4	0.01