# Cities in Kentucky by foreign-born share of the population, 2024

All 42 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `foreign_born_share`
- Unit: %
- Definition: People born outside the country where they live, as a percentage of the total population. United States: people who were not US citizens at birth, including naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, temporary migrants and unauthorized immigrants; American Community Survey five-year estimate, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span. EU countries: residents on 1 January whose country of birth is not the reporting country (Eurostat). England and Wales: usual residents born outside the United Kingdom, Census 2021.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B05002: foreign-born population as a percentage of the total population, calculated with stored inputs, US cities (incorporated places of 10,000 or more) (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b05002.dat)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B05002: foreign-born population as a percentage of the total population, calculated with stored inputs, US cities (incorporated places of 10,000 or more). https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b05002.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/foreign-born-population/kentucky-cities

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Bowling Green, KY | 15 |
| 2 | Lexington, KY | 11.9 |
| 3 | Lyndon, KY | 10.9 |
| 4 | Shelbyville, KY | 10.5 |
| 5 | Louisville, KY | 10.4 |
| 6 | Florence, KY | 9.4 |
| 7 | Jeffersontown, KY | 8.7 |
| 8 | Versailles, KY | 7.6 |
| 9 | Radcliff, KY | 6.4 |
| 10 | Nicholasville, KY | 6.4 |
| 11 | Elizabethtown, KY | 6.2 |
| 12 | Bardstown, KY | 5.8 |
| 13 | Frankfort, KY | 5.7 |
| 14 | St. Matthews, KY | 5.6 |
| 15 | Murray, KY | 5.3 |
| 16 | Covington, KY | 5.1 |
| 17 | La Grange, KY | 5.1 |
| 18 | Owensboro, KY | 5 |
| 19 | Erlanger, KY | 4.1 |
| 20 | Glasgow, KY | 4.1 |
| 21 | Paris, KY | 3.8 |
| 22 | Georgetown, KY | 3.8 |
| 23 | Richmond, KY | 3.6 |
| 24 | Madisonville, KY | 3.6 |
| 25 | Newport, KY | 3.5 |
| 26 | Alexandria, KY | 3.3 |
| 27 | Independence, KY | 3.1 |
| 28 | Hopkinsville, KY | 2.8 |
| 29 | Shively, KY | 2.8 |
| 30 | Paducah, KY | 2.7 |
| 31 | Campbellsville, KY | 2.6 |
| 32 | Danville, KY | 2.6 |
| 33 | Fort Thomas, KY | 2.5 |
| 34 | Berea, KY | 2.3 |
| 35 | Somerset, KY | 1.9 |
| 36 | Mount Washington, KY | 1.9 |
| 37 | Ashland, KY | 1.8 |
| 38 | Franklin, KY | 1.8 |
| 39 | Henderson, KY | 1.7 |
| 40 | Lawrenceburg, KY | 1.7 |
| 41 | Winchester, KY | 1.6 |
| 42 | Shepherdsville, KY | 1.2 |