Ranking of Iowa Counties By Percentage of Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020

Updated on March 27, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census, in April 2020, among all Iowa counties, Black Hawk County had the highest percentage of its population that identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone (10.32%), followed by Johnson County (8.27%), and Scott County (7.84%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all Iowa counties based on the percentage of the 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 of counties for other ethnicities as well as for the different racial groups in Iowa.

You can also see similar ranking for all counties in the United States.

Ranking of Iowa Counties By Percentage of Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Black Hawk
Johnson
Scott
Polk
Linn
Des Moines
Webster
Woodbury
Dubuque
Wapello
Ranking of Iowa Counties By Percentage of Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Black Hawk County 10.32
2 Johnson County 8.27
3 Scott County 7.84
4 Polk County 7.11
5 Linn County 7.03
6 Des Moines County 6.43
7 Webster County 4.79
8 Woodbury County 4.79
9 Dubuque County 4.07
10 Wapello County 4.07
11 Story County 3.02
12 Clinton County 3.00
13 Buena Vista County 2.69
14 Dallas County 2.67
15 Lee County 2.67
16 Floyd County 2.66
17 Jefferson County 2.61
18 Muscatine County 2.51
19 Henry County 2.45
20 Page County 2.40
21 Crawford County 2.32
22 Jones County 2.12
23 Cerro Gordo County 1.97
24 Marshall County 1.96
25 Pottawattamie County 1.96
26 Winnebago County 1.91
27 Jasper County 1.81
28 Mahaska County 1.73
29 Poweshiek County 1.72
30 Calhoun County 1.52
31 Plymouth County 1.38
32 Decatur County 1.27
33 Carroll County 1.26
34 O'Brien County 1.12
35 Boone County 1.08
36 Allamakee County 1.04
37 Fayette County 1.02
38 Bremer County 0.96
39 Emmet County 0.95
40 Union County 0.94
41 Clayton County 0.93
42 Pocahontas County 0.93
43 Warren County 0.86
44 Hardin County 0.85
45 Marion County 0.84
46 Worth County 0.81
47 Washington County 0.78
48 Tama County 0.73
49 Cherokee County 0.72
50 Jackson County 0.72
51 Delaware County 0.70
52 Hancock County 0.70
53 Iowa County 0.67
54 Louisa County 0.67
55 Chickasaw County 0.62
56 Appanoose County 0.61
57 Adair County 0.60
58 Clay County 0.60
59 Hamilton County 0.59
60 Winneshiek County 0.59
61 Palo Alto County 0.58
62 Wright County 0.56
63 Humboldt County 0.55
64 Mills County 0.53
65 Sioux County 0.51
66 Kossuth County 0.48
67 Keokuk County 0.47
68 Sac County 0.47
69 Osceola County 0.45
70 Shelby County 0.45
71 Benton County 0.44
72 Clarke County 0.44
73 Cedar County 0.43
74 Dickinson County 0.43
75 Ida County 0.40
76 Mitchell County 0.40
77 Van Buren County 0.36
78 Grundy County 0.35
79 Buchanan County 0.34
80 Adams County 0.32
81 Franklin County 0.32
82 Lyon County 0.32
83 Monona County 0.32
84 Audubon County 0.30
85 Madison County 0.27
86 Greene County 0.25
87 Guthrie County 0.25
88 Howard County 0.24
89 Monroe County 0.24
90 Montgomery County 0.24
91 Cass County 0.21
92 Lucas County 0.21
93 Harrison County 0.19
94 Butler County 0.18
95 Fremont County 0.15
96 Wayne County 0.15
97 Davis County 0.09
98 Ringgold County 0.04
99 Taylor County 0.02