Ranking of Kentucky Cities and Places By Percentage of Voting-age Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020

Updated on September 3, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for Kentucky counties, in April 2020, among all the cities and places with over 10K voting-age population in Kentucky, Shively city had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone (53.02%), followed by Louisville city (29.74%), and Hopkinsville city (29.38%).

The chart below shows the top 10 cities and places in Kentucky, and the table below shows the ranking of all Kentucky cities and places with over 10K voting-age population, based on the percentage of the voting-age population that identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone.

You can see similar ranking information for other states. You can also see similar rankings for other ethnicities as well as for the different racial groups in Kentucky.

Ranking of Kentucky Cities and Places By Percentage of Voting-age Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Shively
Louisville
Hopkinsville
Radcliff
Paducah
Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance)
Lexington-Fayette urban county
Bowling Green
Frankfort
Henderson
Ranking of Kentucky Cities and Places By Percentage of Voting-age Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
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Rank City or Place % of Place Voting-age Population
1 Shively city 53.02
2 Louisville city 29.74
3 Hopkinsville city 29.38
4 Radcliff city 24.23
5 Paducah city 20.63
6 Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance) 16.08
7 Lexington-Fayette urban county 13.69
8 Bowling Green city 12.87
9 Frankfort city 12.58
10 Henderson city 12.24
11 Bardstown city 12.11
12 Madisonville city 11.64
13 Elizabethtown city 11.30
14 Jeffersontown city 10.99
15 Shelbyville city 10.55
16 Covington city 10.25
17 Danville city 10.06
18 Newport city 8.08
19 Glasgow city 7.80
20 Florence city 7.51
21 Richmond city 7.38
22 Winchester city 7.20
23 Georgetown city 6.85
24 Owensboro city 6.78
25 St. Matthews city 6.61
26 Murray city 6.40
27 Nicholasville city 5.45
28 Berea city 4.88
29 Burlington CDP 4.05
30 Erlanger city 3.29
31 Ashland city 2.86
32 Independence city 2.18
33 Shepherdsville city 2.02
34 Fort Thomas city 1.39
35 Mount Washington city 1.03