Louisville, Kentucky

===2020 Census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Louisville city, Kentucky – Racial and Ethnic Composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), Kentucky|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2148006&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=October 28, 2023|archive-date=November 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106012909/https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2010.P2?q=p2&g=160XX00US2148006|url-status=live}}</ref>
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2city>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Louisville city, Kentucky|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2148006&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=October 28, 2023|archive-date=October 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028222436/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2148006&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=2020CensusP2balance>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), Kentuck|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2148006&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=October 28, 2023|archive-date=October 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028222436/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2148006&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Note: the Census disaggregated Louisville city from Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) in the 2020 Census</ref>
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|408,157
|style='background: #ffffe6; |382,096
|68.33%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |60.36%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|135,138
|style='background: #ffffe6; |147,069
|22.62%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |23.23%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|1,289
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,206
|0.22%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.19%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|12,764
|style='background: #ffffe6; |21,034
|2.14%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.32%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|347
|style='background: #ffffe6; |493
|0.06%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.08%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Some Other Race]] alone (NH)
|1,018
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,064
|0.17%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.48%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race/Multi-Racial]] (NH)
|11,834
|style='background: #ffffe6; |27,900
|1.98%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.41%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|26,790
|style='background: #ffffe6; |50,183
|4.48%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7.93%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''597,337'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''633,045'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}

Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky, with 17.1% of the state's total population as of 2010; the balance's percentage was 13.8%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/totals/2013/tables/NST-EST2013-01.csv |title=Table 1. Annual Estimates of the Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013 |format=[[comma-separated values|CSV]] |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]], Population Division |date=December 30, 2013 |access-date=June 25, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824084354/http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/totals/2013/tables/NST-EST2013-01.csv |archive-date=August 24, 2014 }}</ref> In 2010, over one-third of the population growth in Kentucky was in Louisville's CSA counties.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}
[[File:Race and ethnicity 2010- Louisville (5560442676).png|thumb|left|Map of racial distribution in Louisville, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#ff0000|White}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#0000ff|African American}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#00ffaa|Asian}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#ffa600|Hispanic}} {{legend inline|outline=white|white|text=⬤|textcolor=#ffff07|Other}}]]

The 2007 demographic breakdown for the entire [[Louisville metropolitan area|Louisville Metro area]] was 74.8% White (71.7% non-Hispanic), 22.2% African American, 0.6% Native American, 2.0% Asian, 0.1% Hawaiian or Pacific islander, 1.4% other, and 1.6% multiracial. About 2.9% of the total population was identified as Hispanic of any race. During the same year, the area of premerger Louisville consisted 60.1% White, 35.2% African American, 1.9% Asian, 0.2% Native American, and 3.0% other, with 2.4% identified as Hispanic of any race.

Of the 287,012 households, 29.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.2% were [[marriage|married couples]] living together, 14.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.2% were not families. About 30.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.97.

The age distribution is 24.3% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.60 males.

The [[median household income|median income]] for a household in 2017 was $51,960. For non-family households the median income was $32,446, and for family households was $67,965. In 2017, males had a median income of $36,326 while females had a median income of $30,464.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_17_1YR_S1903&prodType=table|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214011120/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_17_1YR_S1903&prodType=table|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 14, 2020|title=American FactFinder—Results|website=factfinder.census.gov|language=en|access-date=March 24, 2019}}</ref> The latest available data for [[per capita income]] comes from 2006, and was $23,304 for the county.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_06_EST_B19301&prodType=table|title=American FactFinder—Results|website=factfinder.census.gov|language=en|access-date=March 24, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214060816/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_06_EST_B19301&prodType=table|archive-date=February 14, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> About 9.5% of families and 15.1% of the population were below the [[poverty threshold|poverty line]] in 2017, including 23.5% of those under age 18 and 8.2% of those ages 65 or over.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_17_1YR_S1701&prodType=table|title=American FactFinder—Results|website=factfinder.census.gov|language=en|access-date=March 24, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200214060745/https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_17_1YR_S1701&prodType=table|archive-date=February 14, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>

African Americans are concentrated in the [[Smoketown, Louisville|Smoketown]] neighborhood.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://louisville.cc/louisvilles-historic-black-neighborhoods/|title=Louisville's Historic Black Neighborhoods – Louisville History and Souvenirs|website=louisville.cc|access-date=September 7, 2023|archive-date=September 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907014809/https://louisville.cc/louisvilles-historic-black-neighborhoods/|url-status=live}}</ref>