Shelby 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 47.52K Shelby County, KY population, 11.64K had Unclassified ancestry (24.50%), 11.16K had Other Groups ancestry (23.49%), and 7.35K had German ancestry (15.48%).

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.

Shelby County, KY Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021

Unclassified

Other Groups

German

English

Irish

American

Scottish

European

Scotch Irish

Polish

Shelby County, KY Population By Ancestry in 2021

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Ancestry	Population	Percent of Pop. (%)
Unclassified	11641	24.50
Other Groups	11163	23.49
German	7354	15.48
English	6676	14.05
Irish	6223	13.10
American	5267	11.08
Scottish	1490	3.14
European	1019	2.14
Scotch Irish	1017	2.14
Polish	877	1.85
Italian	839	1.77
French (except Basque)	648	1.36
British	634	1.33
Dutch	580	1.22
Swedish	487	1.02
Subsaharan African	472	0.99
Swiss	278	0.59
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	263	0.55
Jamaican	248	0.52
Senegalese	227	0.48
Norwegian	172	0.36
Scandinavian	150	0.32
Russian	148	0.31
Welsh	128	0.27
Eastern European	86	0.18
Hungarian	77	0.16
Ugandan	73	0.15
French Canadian	72	0.15
African	72	0.15
Austrian	64	0.14
Lithuanian	60	0.13
Northern European	51	0.11
Ethiopian	51	0.11
Danish	49	0.10
South African	49	0.10
Czech	47	0.10
Portuguese	46	0.10
Greek	45	0.10
Serbian	44	0.09
Moroccan	38	0.08
Brazilian	37	0.08
Romanian	35	0.07
Ukrainian	32	0.07
Slovak	27	0.06
Belgian	25	0.05
Bulgarian	24	0.05
Canadian	18	0.04
Czechoslovakian	17	0.04
West Indian	15	0.03
Finnish	9	0.02
Armenian	6	0.01
Slovene	4	0.01