Jefferson 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 256.76K Jefferson County, TX population, 150.30K had Other Groups ancestry (58.54%), 43.87K had Unclassified ancestry (17.09%), and 15.60K had German ancestry (6.08%).

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.
Jefferson County, TX Percentage of Ancestry Population in 2021
Other Groups
Unclassified
German
Irish
French (except Basque)
English
American
Italian
French Canadian
Scotch Irish
Jefferson County, TX Population By Ancestry in 2021
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Ancestry Population Percent of Pop. (%)
Other Groups 150304 58.54
Unclassified 43870 17.09
German 15604 6.08
Irish 14487 5.64
French (except Basque) 13376 5.21
English 10691 4.16
American 7578 2.95
Italian 6656 2.59
French Canadian 2871 1.12
Scotch Irish 2170 0.85
European 2020 0.79
Cajun 1997 0.78
Subsaharan African 1752 0.68
Scottish 1680 0.65
Dutch 1675 0.65
African 1363 0.53
Norwegian 969 0.38
Polish 720 0.28
British 647 0.25
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 547 0.21
Czech 537 0.21
Swedish 478 0.19
Russian 419 0.16
Nigerian 333 0.13
Welsh 332 0.13
Greek 309 0.12
Lebanese 301 0.12
Scandinavian 281 0.11
Portuguese 232 0.09
Northern European 206 0.08
Hungarian 186 0.07
Brazilian 158 0.06
Dutch West Indian 147 0.06
Danish 140 0.06
Eastern European 131 0.05
Bahamian 131 0.05
Syrian 106 0.04
Ukrainian 100 0.04
Jamaican 96 0.04
Canadian 93 0.04
Croatian 82 0.03
Finnish 72 0.03
Haitian 71 0.03
Belgian 67 0.03
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 65 0.03
Slovene 65 0.03
Palestinian 63 0.03
Austrian 63 0.03
Lithuanian 59 0.02
Arab 56 0.02
Barbadian 50 0.02
Iranian 49 0.02
Celtic 36 0.01
Romanian 34 0.01
Slovak 27 0.01
Egyptian 25 0.01
Iraqi 22 0.01
Estonian 20 0.01
Australian 16 0.01
Armenian 12 0.01
Sierra Leonean 12 0.01
Czechoslovakian 11 0.004
Albania 10 0.004
Sudanese 10 0.004
British West Indian 10 0.004
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 10 0.004
Swiss 9 0.004
Icelander 8 0.003
Pennsylvania German 7 0.003
Jordanian 6 0.002
Guyanese 6 0.002
Zimbabwean 6 0.002
Turkish 3 0.001