Knott 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 14.51K Knott County, KY population, 7.53K had Unclassified ancestry (51.90%), 2.25K had Other Groups ancestry (15.54%), and 1.66K had Irish ancestry (11.42%).

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.

Knott County, KY Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021

Unclassified

Other Groups

Irish

English

American

German

Scottish

Swiss

Scotch Irish

European

Knott County, KY Population By Ancestry in 2021

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Ancestry	Population	Percent of Pop. (%)
Unclassified	7529	51.90
Other Groups	2254	15.54
Irish	1656	11.42
English	1408	9.71
American	1144	7.89
German	1058	7.29
Scottish	361	2.49
Swiss	254	1.75
Scotch Irish	167	1.15
European	141	0.97
Italian	102	0.70
Subsaharan African	49	0.34
African	49	0.34
French (except Basque)	31	0.21
Dutch	22	0.15
Polish	16	0.11
British	14	0.10
Slovak	13	0.09
Welsh	13	0.09
Greek	12	0.08
Hungarian	6	0.04
Slavic	6	0.04
Scandinavian	4	0.03
Armenian	3	0.02