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
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.
Rank | City or Place | % of Place Voting-age Population |
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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 |