Kentucky's Largest Ethnic Groups

Kentucky has a large portion of residents who don't claim an ethnic background: over 1 in 5 residents listed their ancestry as just "American" in 2010.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 Kentucky Population	As a Percent of Total Kentucky Population
	Total Population	4,346,266	100.00%
1	American	924,814	21.28%
2	German	647,990	14.91%
3	Irish	556,305	12.80%
4	English	467,311	10.75%
5	African-American*	303,417	6.98%
6	Italian	82,483	1.90%
7	Mexican	81,890	1.88%
8	Scottish	76,018	1.75%
9	French, except Basque	72,956	1.68%
10	Scotch-Irish	63,142	1.45%
11	Dutch	53,773	1.24%
12	European	38,586	0.89%
13	Polish	31,671	0.73%
14	African	21,759	0.50%
15	Welsh	21,240	0.49%
16	British	16,418	0.38%
17	Norwegian	14,775	0.34%
18	Swedish	12,797	0.29%
19	Cuban	11,571	0.27%
20	Asian Indian	10,369	0.24%
21	Swiss	9,692	0.22%
22	Puerto Rican	9,617	0.22%
23	Chinese, except Taiwanese	8,752	0.20%
24	Russian	8,508	0.20%
25	Yugoslavian	7,857	0.18%
26	French Canadian	7,405	0.17%
27	Vietnamese	7,105	0.16%
28	Guatemalan	6,007	0.14%
29	Greek	5,499	0.13%
30	Filipino	5,419	0.12%
31	Japanese	5,392	0.12%
32	Hungarian	5,271	0.12%
33	Czech	4,546	0.10%
34	Lebanese	4,360	0.10%
35	Portuguese	4,099	0.09%
36	Ukrainian	4,064	0.09%
37	Danish	3,821	0.09%
38	Salvadoran	3,663	0.08%
39	Korean	3,648	0.08%
40	Scandinavian	3,639	0.08%
41	Canadian	3,208	0.07%
42	Austrian	3,066	0.07%
43	Finnish	2,567	0.06%
44	Cherokee	2,553	0.06%
45	Eastern European	2,498	0.06%
46	Slovak	2,147	0.05%
47	Honduran	2,131	0.05%
48	Spaniard	2,052	0.05%
49	Belgian	1,973	0.05%
50	Pennsylvania German	1,784	0.04%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, C02005, B02006, C02007, B03001, B03002, B04006

* African-American is derived as respondents selecting Black as racial group after removing African, West Indian, and Hispanic ethnicities.