Demographics of Kentucky

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Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1790 73,677—
1800 220,955199.9%
1810 406,51184.0%
1820 564,31738.8%
1830 687,91721.9%
1840 779,82813.4%
1850 982,40526.0%
1860 1,155,68417.6%
1870 1,321,01114.3%
1880 1,648,69024.8%
1890 1,858,63512.7%
1900 2,147,17415.5%
1910 2,289,9056.6%
1920 2,416,6305.5%
1930 2,614,5898.2%
1940 2,845,6278.8%
1950 2,944,8063.5%
1960 3,038,1563.2%
1970 3,218,7065.9%
1980 3,660,77713.7%
1990 3,685,2960.7%
2000 4,041,7699.7%
2010 4,339,3677.4%
2020 4,505,8363.8%
Source: 1790-2000 [1] 1910–2020 [2]
Kentucky population density map. Kentucky population map.png
Kentucky population density map.

As of the 2010 census, the United States Commonwealth of Kentucky had an estimated population of 4,339,367, which is an increase of 297,174, or 7.4%, since the year 2000. Approximately 4.4% of Kentucky's population was foreign-born as of 2010. The population density of the state is 107.4 people per square mile. [3]

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Kentucky's total population has grown during every decade since records began. However, during most decades of the 20th century there was also net out-migration from Kentucky. Since 1900, rural Kentucky counties have experienced a net loss of over 1 million people from migration, while urban areas have experienced a slight net gain. [4]

The center of population of Kentucky is located in Washington County, in the city of Willisburg. [5]

Ancestry

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has an overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic ancestral origin, according to the US Census Bureau official statistics the largest ancestry is American totalling 20.2%, an ancestral identification used by Old Stock English and Scots-Irish Americans in the Upland South whose families have been in the United States for hundreds of years. The other main ancestries were: German (14,5%), Irish (12,2%), English (10,1%) and Scottish (1.9%). [6] In Christian County and Fulton County, African American is the largest reported ancestry. [7] As of the 1980s the only counties in the United States where over half of the population cited "English" as their only ancestry group were all in the hills of eastern Kentucky (and made up virtually every county in this region). [8]

Largest ancestry group by county in Kentucky, as of 2017 Kentucky ancestry map.jpg
Largest ancestry group by county in Kentucky, as of 2017

In 1790, historians estimate Kentucky's population was English (52%), Scots-Irish or Scots (25%), Irish (9%), Welsh, (7%), German (5%), French (2%), Dutch (1%), and Swedish (0.2%) in ethnicity. [9]

In the 1980 census 1,267,079 Kentuckians out of a total population of 3,660,777 cited that they were of English ancestry making them 31 percent of the state at that time. [10]

African Americans, who made up one-fourth of Kentucky's population prior to the Civil War, declined in number as many moved to the industrial North in the Great Migration. Today 44.2% of Kentucky's African American population is in Jefferson County and 52% are in the Louisville Metro Area. Other areas with high concentrations, besides Christian and Fulton Counties, are the city of Paducah, the Bluegrass, and the city of Lexington.

Demographics of Kentucky (csv)
By race WhiteBlackAIAN*AsianNHPI*
2000 (total population)91.53%7.76%0.61%0.92%0.08%
2000 (Hispanic only)1.35%0.10%0.04%0.02%0.01%
2005 (total population)91.27%7.98%0.58%1.10%0.08%
2005 (Hispanic only)1.80%0.12%0.04%0.03%0.01%
Growth 2000–05 (total population)2.97%6.16%-2.21%23.46%9.78%
Growth 2000–05 (non-Hispanic only)2.44%5.94%-3.28%23.07%7.98%
Growth 2000–05 (Hispanic only)37.97%22.34%13.51%38.48%19.80%
* AIAN is American Indian or Alaskan Native; NHPI is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

Ancestries

Ancestry [11] Number%
Afghan726
Albanian116

Birth data

Note: Births in table don't add up, because Hispanics are counted both by their ethnicity and by their race, giving a higher overall number.

Live Births by Single Race/Ethnicity of Mother
Race 2013 [12] 2014 [13] 2015 [14] 2016 [15] 2017 [16] 2018 [17] 2019 [18] 2020 [19] 2021 [20] 2022 [21]
White:48,995 (88.0%)49,248 (87.7%)49,061 (87.6%).....................
> Non-Hispanic White 46,612 (83.7%)46,701 (83.1%)46,344 (82.8%)45,146 (81.4%)44,280 (80.9%)43,317 (80.3%)42,215 (79.5%)40,726 (78.8%)41,061 (78.6%)40,484 (77.4%)
Black 5,458 (9.8%)5,571 (9.9%)5,507 (9.8%)4,902 (8.8%)5,006 (9.1%)4,950 (9.2%)5,034 (9.5%)5,154 (10.0%)5,124 (9.8%)5,043 (9.6%)
Asian 1,191 (2.1%)1,275 (2.3%)1,315 (2.3%)1,182 (2.1%)1,173 (2.1%)1,144 (2.1%)1,078 (2.0%)1,099 (2.1%)1,058 (2.0%)1,151 (2.2%)
Pacific Islander .........67 (0.1%)68 (0.1%)79 (0.1%)69 (0.1%)75 (0.1%)82 (0.1%)92 (0.2%)
American Indian 82 (0.1%)76 (0.1%)88 (0.1%)55 (0.1%)49 (0.1%)68 (0.1%)50 (0.1%)53 (0.1%)43 (>0.1%)59 (0.1%)
Hispanic (of any race)2,693 (4.8%)2,819 (5.0%)3,000 (5.3%)3,137 (5.6%)3,162 (5.8%)3,226 (6.0%)3,450 (6.5%)3,472 (6.7%)3,737 (7.1%)4,291 (8.2%)
Total Kentucky55,686 (100%)56,170 (100%)55,971 (100%)55,449 (100%)54,752 (100%)53,922 (100%)53,069 (100%)51,668 (100%)52,214 (100%)52,315 (100%)

Religion

Lexington Theological Seminary (then College of the Bible), 1904. CollegeoftheBible-LexKY.JPG
Lexington Theological Seminary (then College of the Bible), 1904.

In 2000, The Association of Religion Data Archives reported [22] that of Kentucky's 4,041,769 residents:

Today Kentucky is home to several seminaries. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville is the principal seminary for the Southern Baptist Convention. Louisville is also the home of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Lexington has two seminaries, Lexington Theological Seminary, and the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky. Asbury Theological Seminary is located in nearby Wilmore. In addition to seminaries, there are several colleges affiliated with denominations. Transylvania in Lexington is affiliated with the Disciples of Christ. In Louisville, Bellarmine and Spalding are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. In Owensboro, Kentucky, Kentucky Wesleyan College is associated with the Methodist Church and Brescia University is associated with the Roman Catholic Church. Louisville is also home to the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and their printing press. Louisville is also home to a sizable Muslim [23] and Jewish population.

Religious movements were important in the early history of Kentucky. Perhaps the most famous event was the interdenominational revival in August 1801 at the Cane Ridge Meeting House in Bourbon County. As part of what is now known as the "Western Revival", thousands began meeting around a Presbyterian communion service on August 6, 1801, and ended six days later on August 12, 1801, when both humans and horses ran out of food. [24] Some claim that the Cane Ridge Revival was propagated from an earlier camp meeting at Red River Meeting House in Logan County. [25]

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