Wayne 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 19.74K Wayne County, KY population, 7.46K had Unclassified ancestry (37.78%), 4.53K had English ancestry (22.93%), and 2.32K had Other Groups ancestry (11.74%).

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.

Wayne County, KY Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021

Unclassified

English

Other Groups

American

Irish

German

European

Russian

Scottish

Italian

Wayne County, KY Population By Ancestry in 2021

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Ancestry	Population	Percent of Pop. (%)
Unclassified	7459	37.78
English	4527	22.93
Other Groups	2317	11.74
American	2211	11.20
Irish	1913	9.69
German	1534	7.77
European	296	1.50
Russian	266	1.35
Scottish	214	1.08
Italian	195	0.99
Dutch	188	0.95
Subsaharan African	168	0.85
African	168	0.85
Scandinavian	124	0.63
Ukrainian	107	0.54
Czech	93	0.47
Norwegian	51	0.26
Polish	51	0.26
British	49	0.25
Canadian	47	0.24
Eastern European	47	0.24
French (except Basque)	46	0.23
Croatian	20	0.10
Danish	18	0.09
Scotch Irish	17	0.09
Welsh	13	0.07
Lithuanian	12	0.06
Hungarian	8	0.04
Swedish	5	0.03