If in 1803 the population of the province was 350 thousand people, then, according to the All-Russian Population Census in 1897, there were 2 million 733 612 inhabitants. In 1897 in the province lived 1 million 462 thousand Ukrainians, 575.3 thousand Russians, 322.5 thousand Jews, 147.2 thousand Moldovans, 123.4 thousand Germans. The rest were Bulgarians, Poles, Belorussians.

Jewish speaking population of towns of Kherson Province (1897):
Kherson - 29,1%
Beryslav - 21,7%
Mykolaiv - 19,5%
Alexandria - 26,3%
Novogeorgievsk - 12,3%
Ananiev - 21,1%
Elizavetgrad - 37,8%
Bobrynets - 24,4%
Voznesensk - 37,3%
Novomyrgorod - 17,3%
Olviopol - 21,5%
Odessa - 30,8%
Mayaky - 14,1%
Ovidiopol - 7,5%
Ochakiv -13,3%
Tiraspol - 27,1%
Grigoriopol - 10,9%
Dubossary - 44,1%
total in towns of the province - 28,4%.