Fayette 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 321.35K Fayette County, KY population, 98.53K had Other Groups ancestry (30.66%), 70.91K had Unclassified ancestry (22.06%), and 42.09K had German ancestry (13.10%).

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.

Fayette County, KY Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021

Other Groups

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American

Italian

Scottish

European

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Fayette County, KY Population By Ancestry in 2021

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Ancestry	Population	Percent of Pop. (%)
Other Groups	98534	30.66
Unclassified	70905	22.06
German	42094	13.10
English	39002	12.14
Irish	35337	11.00
American	26396	8.21
Italian	9901	3.08
Scottish	8292	2.58
European	8023	2.50
Scotch Irish	6287	1.96
French (except Basque)	5204	1.62
Polish	5118	1.59
Subsaharan African	5036	1.57
British	4002	1.25
Welsh	3438	1.07
Dutch	3412	1.06
African	2059	0.64
Norwegian	1655	0.52
Swedish	1630	0.51
Russian	1348	0.42
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	1046	0.33
Arab	1002	0.31
Hungarian	914	0.28
Scandinavian	905	0.28
Greek	904	0.28
Ukrainian	814	0.25
French Canadian	735	0.23
Eastern European	716	0.22
Swiss	702	0.22
Iranian	650	0.20
Northern European	580	0.18
Nigerian	570	0.18
Portuguese	559	0.17
Canadian	511	0.16
Austrian	494	0.15
Czech	484	0.15
Danish	474	0.15
Haitian	453	0.14
Lebanese	448	0.14
Belgian	445	0.14
Jamaican	393	0.12
Slovak	382	0.12
Lithuanian	349	0.11
Egyptian	292	0.09
Ghanaian	268	0.08
Albania	259	0.08
Bulgarian	258	0.08
Palestinian	243	0.08
Czechoslovakian	223	0.07
Iraqi	208	0.07
Turkish	193	0.06
Jordanian	192	0.06
Croatian	181	0.06
Romanian	175	0.05
Finnish	153	0.05
South African	137	0.04
Slovene	132	0.04
German Russian	127	0.04
Macedonian	123	0.04
Armenian	111	0.04
Cajun	87	0.03
Syrian	82	0.03
Afghan	81	0.03
Trinidadian and Tobagonian	77	0.02
Slavic	75	0.02
Australian	72	0.02
Sudanese	72	0.02
Brazilian	68	0.02
Kenyan	67	0.02
Serbian	62	0.02
Cape Verdean	56	0.02
Ugandan	52	0.02
Israeli	50	0.02
Icelander	48	0.02
Bahamian	47	0.02
New Zealander	46	0.01
Moroccan	45	0.01
Ethiopian	41	0.01
Yugoslavian	40	0.01
West Indian	39	0.01
Belizean	37	0.01
Latvian	36	0.01
Luxembourger	34	0.01
Pennsylvania German	30	0.01
Senegalese	30	0.01
Guyanese	25	0.01
Celtic	21	0.01
Basque	10	0.003
Sierra Leonean	8	0.003
Alsatian	2	0.001