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Population and Households by County.

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Kenya's 2019 Population and Housing Census, counted on the night of 24 August 2019: population by sex, households by type, land area and population density, for the 47 counties and the national total. Kenya counted 47,564,296 people in 12,143,913 households.

Each figure appears three times, once per residence: all areas, rural only and urban only. KNBS publishes those as three separate workbooks and they are combined here into one table with a residence column, since three files differing by a single dimension are one dataset with that dimension in it.

A dash in the source means not applicable rather than zero, and is dropped rather than read as a number. Mombasa and Nairobi City have no rural rows at all because both are entirely urban; recording that as a population of zero would publish a fact the census did not state.

Intersex is a category the Kenyan census counts, and it is kept. It is small, 1,524 people nationally, and dropping small categories is how they stop being counted.

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POPULATION DENSITY

The 19 densest of Kenya's 47 counties hold half its people on 6.7 percent of its land.

2019 Population and Housing Census · people per square kilometre · 47 counties

SOURCE: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics · Population and Households by County (2019 Census) · Updated 2026-08-15
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imibare contributors. (2026). Population and Households by County [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-15. https://imibare.org/datasets/ke.knbs.population.irregular