Ranking of Alabama Counties By Percentage of Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020

Updated on February 25, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for Alabama counties, in April 2020, among all Alabama counties, Greene County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (80.80%), followed by Macon County (79.06%), and Sumter County (72.88%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all Alabama counties based on the percentage of the population that identified as Black or African American Alone.

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

Ranking of Alabama Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Greene
Macon
Sumter
Bullock
Wilcox
Dallas
Lowndes
Perry
Montgomery
Hale
Ranking of Alabama Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County Black Alone % of County Pop.
1 Greene County 80.80
2 Macon County 79.06
3 Sumter County 72.88
4 Bullock County 71.41
5 Wilcox County 70.59
6 Dallas County 69.94
7 Lowndes County 69.75
8 Perry County 69.75
9 Montgomery County 56.98
10 Hale County 56.39
11 Marengo County 52.73
12 Barbour County 47.31
13 Clarke County 44.42
14 Russell County 44.34
15 Butler County 44.25
16 Conecuh County 44.01
17 Monroe County 41.97
18 Jefferson County 41.70
19 Choctaw County 41.31
20 Pickens County 39.16
21 Chambers County 38.86
22 Pike County 36.77
23 Mobile County 35.26
24 Talladega County 32.18
25 Tuscaloosa County 30.43
26 Escambia County 29.90
27 Coosa County 28.96
28 Houston County 26.50
29 Tallapoosa County 25.20
30 Henry County 24.78
31 Madison County 23.72
32 Crenshaw County 23.52
33 Lee County 22.71
34 Calhoun County 21.95
35 Washington County 21.56
36 Dale County 20.76
37 Elmore County 20.70
38 Bibb County 19.80
39 Autauga County 19.46
40 Randolph County 17.37
41 Coffee County 16.39
42 Colbert County 16.23
43 Etowah County 14.64
44 Clay County 13.79
45 Shelby County 12.98
46 Limestone County 12.85
47 Morgan County 12.52
48 Covington County 12.26
49 Fayette County 10.64
50 Lamar County 10.20
51 Lawrence County 9.99
52 Lauderdale County 9.88
53 St. Clair County 9.50
54 Chilton County 9.04
55 Geneva County 8.41
56 Baldwin County 7.86
57 Walker County 6.01
58 Cherokee County 3.95
59 Marion County 3.77
60 Franklin County 3.63
61 Jackson County 3.11
62 Cleburne County 3.10
63 Marshall County 2.49
64 DeKalb County 1.46
65 Blount County 1.43
66 Cullman County 1.07
67 Winston County 0.60