Ranking of Tennessee 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 Tennessee counties, in April 2020, among all the cities and places with over 10K voting-age population in Tennessee, Memphis city had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone (59.66%), followed by Jackson city (41.70%), and Chattanooga city (27.46%).

The chart below shows the top 10 cities and places in Tennessee, and the table below shows the ranking of all Tennessee 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 Tennessee.

Ranking of Tennessee Cities and Places By Percentage of Voting-age Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Memphis
Jackson
Chattanooga
Dyersburg
La Vergne
Clarksville
Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance)
Goodlettsville
Springfield
Bartlett
Ranking of Tennessee 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 Memphis city 59.66
2 Jackson city 41.70
3 Chattanooga city 27.46
4 Dyersburg city 25.30
5 La Vergne city 24.36
6 Clarksville city 23.61
7 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) 23.05
8 Goodlettsville city 21.38
9 Springfield city 20.25
10 Bartlett city 19.53
11 Murfreesboro city 18.67
12 Columbia city 17.96
13 Smyrna town 15.76
14 Knoxville city 14.39
15 Gallatin city 13.36
16 Shelbyville city 13.01
17 Collierville town 12.09
18 East Ridge city 11.69
19 Lebanon city 10.88
20 Lakeland city 10.07
21 Hendersonville city 8.13
22 Mount Juliet city 7.88
23 Cleveland city 7.83
24 Dickson city 7.71
25 Athens city 7.40
26 Oak Ridge city 7.16
27 Johnson City city 6.73
28 Tullahoma city 6.42
29 Spring Hill city 6.20
30 Morristown city 5.67
31 Franklin city 5.31
32 Cookeville city 5.04
33 Greeneville town 4.73
34 McMinnville city 4.27
35 Germantown city 3.87
36 Kingsport city 3.57
37 Brentwood city 3.07
38 Maryville city 3.05
39 Bristol city 2.96
40 Elizabethton city 2.52
41 Powell CDP 2.10
42 Farragut town 1.83
43 Sevierville city 1.58
44 Soddy-Daisy city 1.02
45 Seymour CDP 0.74