Ranking of Iowa Counties By Percentage of Population with Unclassified Ancestry in 2021

Updated on April 16, 2025.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, there were 796.79K people in Iowa with Unclassified ancestry (25.06% of Iowa population). Among all Iowa counties, Louisa County had the highest percentage of its population with Unclassified ancestry (38.78%), followed by Appanoose County (38.15%), and Van Buren County (37.51%).

The chart and table below shows the top 10 counties with high percentage of its population having Unclassified ancestry.

You can see similar information for other states and for other ancestry groups in Iowa.

Data Source: US Census Bureau.
Ranking of Iowa Counties By Percentage of Population with Unclassified Ancestry in 2021
Louisa County
Appanoose County
Van Buren County
Greene County
Muscatine County
Ringgold County
Webster County
Wayne County
Madison County
Decatur County
Ranking of Iowa Counties By Percentage of Population with Unclassified Ancestry in 2021
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Rank County Percentage of Pop. (%)
1 Louisa County 38.78
2 Appanoose County 38.15
3 Van Buren County 37.51
4 Greene County 36.69
5 Muscatine County 35.80
6 Ringgold County 34.35
7 Webster County 34.34
8 Wayne County 32.73
9 Madison County 32.18
10 Decatur County 32.11
11 Emmet County 31.76
12 Lee County 31.38
13 Union County 31.35
14 Des Moines County 30.95
15 Davis County 30.91
16 Montgomery County 30.37
17 Humboldt County 30.25
18 Washington County 29.92
19 Cherokee County 29.91
20 Monroe County 29.79
21 Benton County 29.75
22 Wapello County 29.53
23 Cass County 29.40
24 Taylor County 29.35
25 Keokuk County 29.23
26 Clinton County 29.15
27 Guthrie County 29.03
28 Audubon County 28.92
29 Hardin County 28.87
30 Buchanan County 28.53
31 Clarke County 28.50
32 Jefferson County 28.39
33 Henry County 28.37
34 Page County 28.17
35 Pocahontas County 27.92
36 Poweshiek County 27.91
37 Hancock County 27.86
38 Black Hawk County 27.77
39 Calhoun County 27.75
40 Lucas County 27.05
41 Mills County 26.91
42 Warren County 26.75
43 Boone County 26.59
44 Linn County 26.49
45 Cedar County 26.38
46 Shelby County 26.33
47 O'Brien County 26.13
48 Hamilton County 26.05
49 Grundy County 26.01
50 Cerro Gordo County 25.82
51 Jackson County 25.79
52 Fremont County 25.72
53 Adair County 25.62
53 Jasper County 25.62
54 Clayton County 25.56
55 Marshall County 25.49
56 Tama County 25.48
57 Sac County 25.47
58 Adams County 25.45
59 Delaware County 25.44
60 Marion County 25.27
61 Mahaska County 25.16
62 Worth County 25.09
63 Iowa County 24.98
64 Howard County 24.91
65 Floyd County 24.87
66 Scott County 24.25
67 Story County 24.21
68 Jones County 24.08
69 Mitchell County 24.06
70 Harrison County 23.96
71 Dallas County 23.92
72 Clay County 23.88
73 Chickasaw County 23.67
74 Pottawattamie County 23.11
75 Polk County 23.07
76 Dickinson County 22.98
77 Plymouth County 22.93
78 Fayette County 22.79
79 Bremer County 22.76
80 Butler County 22.70
81 Kossuth County 22.67
82 Carroll County 22.45
83 Monona County 21.82
84 Franklin County 21.69
85 Ida County 21.57
86 Winnebago County 20.89
87 Wright County 20.70
88 Palo Alto County 20.69
89 Dubuque County 20.60
90 Johnson County 20.21
91 Woodbury County 20.13
92 Buena Vista County 20.00
93 Osceola County 19.54
94 Allamakee County 19.40
95 Lyon County 19.34
96 Crawford County 18.83
97 Winneshiek County 17.09
98 Sioux County 15.67