Whitley 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 36.58K Whitley County, KY population, 17.18K had Unclassified ancestry (46.98%), 5.85K had Other Groups ancestry (15.99%), and 4.08K had American ancestry (11.16%).

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.

Whitley County, KY Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021

Unclassified

Other Groups

American

English

Irish

German

Italian

Scottish

Scotch Irish

European

Whitley County, KY Population By Ancestry in 2021

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Ancestry	Population	Percent of Pop. (%)
Unclassified	17184	46.98
Other Groups	5847	15.99
American	4081	11.16
English	3846	10.52
Irish	3841	10.50
German	2407	6.58
Italian	648	1.77
Scottish	467	1.28
Scotch Irish	440	1.20
European	398	1.09
Hungarian	341	0.93
French (except Basque)	278	0.76
Dutch	251	0.69
Welsh	243	0.66
Polish	204	0.56
British	186	0.51
Czech	183	0.50
Swedish	180	0.49
Ukrainian	170	0.47
Scandinavian	157	0.43
Norwegian	124	0.34
Eastern European	65	0.18
Pennsylvania German	47	0.13
Finnish	36	0.10
Subsaharan African	23	0.06
Lithuanian	20	0.06
Czechoslovakian	18	0.05
Swiss	18	0.05
Canadian	16	0.04
Armenian	12	0.03
Portuguese	9	0.03
Sudanese	9	0.03
Lebanese	7	0.02
Nigerian	7	0.02
African	7	0.02
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	7	0.02
West Indian	7	0.02
Iranian	6	0.02
Syrian	2	0.01