Denton County, TX Population By Ancestry in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on April 15, 2025.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, among the 885.01K Denton County, TX population, 332.80K had Other Groups ancestry (37.60%), 207.62K had Unclassified ancestry (23.46%), and 107.52K had German ancestry (12.15%).

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 Texas counties, and for Texas.

NB: People could belong to one or more ancestry groups.

Data Source: US Census Bureau.

Denton County, TX Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021

Other Groups

Unclassified

German

English

Irish

American

Italian

European

French (except Basque)

Scottish

Denton County, TX Population By Ancestry in 2021

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Ancestry	Population	Percent of Pop. (%)
Other Groups	332798	37.60
Unclassified	207619	23.46
German	107516	12.15
English	90063	10.18
Irish	77122	8.71
American	42475	4.80
Italian	28865	3.26
European	19738	2.23
French (except Basque)	19664	2.22
Scottish	17607	1.99
Subsaharan African	16376	1.85
Polish	15010	1.70
Scotch Irish	10806	1.22
Dutch	8810	1.00
African	8480	0.96
British	7901	0.89
Norwegian	7588	0.86
Swedish	6053	0.68
Welsh	5499	0.62
Czech	5096	0.58
Nigerian	4252	0.48
Scandinavian	3448	0.39
Russian	3318	0.38
French Canadian	3212	0.36
Danish	2976	0.34
Iranian	2539	0.29
Greek	2372	0.27
Hungarian	2371	0.27
Portuguese	1992	0.23
West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	1949	0.22
Eastern European	1943	0.22
Lebanese	1931	0.22
Canadian	1527	0.17
Swiss	1442	0.16
Brazilian	1364	0.15
Northern European	1252	0.14
Egyptian	1095	0.12
Ukrainian	1045	0.12
Lithuanian	952	0.11
Slovak	919	0.10
Finnish	912	0.10
Kenyan	895	0.10
Austrian	883	0.10
Turkish	880	0.10
Czechoslovakian	783	0.09
Ghanaian	743	0.08
Arab	726	0.08
Belgian	689	0.08
Palestinian	630	0.07
Bulgarian	606	0.07
Jamaican	604	0.07
Ethiopian	525	0.06
Iraqi	471	0.05
Romanian	466	0.05
Jordanian	462	0.05
South African	442	0.05
Moroccan	441	0.05
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac	435	0.05
Slovene	413	0.05
Pennsylvania German	385	0.04
Croatian	371	0.04
Yugoslavian	369	0.04
Albania	363	0.04
Serbian	335	0.04
Cajun	320	0.04
West Indian	273	0.03
Armenian	271	0.03
Zimbabwean	250	0.03
Syrian	244	0.03
Belizean	228	0.03
Australian	220	0.03
Latvian	188	0.02
Barbadian	176	0.02
Dutch West Indian	163	0.02
Trinidadian and Tobagonian	154	0.02
Haitian	139	0.02
Israeli	131	0.02
Bahamian	122	0.01
Celtic	119	0.01
Guyanese	116	0.01
British West Indian	106	0.01
New Zealander	94	0.01
Sudanese	92	0.01
Cypriot	91	0.01
Slavic	73	0.01
Sierra Leonean	73	0.01
Estonian	42	0.01
Basque	39	0.004
Liberian	36	0.004
Cape Verdean	34	0.004
Alsatian	28	0.003
Afghan	27	0.003
German Russian	27	0.003
Ugandan	25	0.003
Icelander	22	0.003
Luxembourger	19	0.002
Somali	14	0.002
Macedonian	11	0.001
Maltese	7	0.001