Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Population that were White Alone from Census 2020

Updated on February 25, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for California counties, in April 2020, among all California counties, Plumas County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (83.92%), followed by Nevada County (83.73%), and Sierra County (83.53%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all California counties based on the percentage of the population that identified as White 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 California.

Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
Plumas
Nevada
Sierra
Calaveras
Tuolumne
Shasta
Mariposa
Modoc
Amador
El Dorado
Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Plumas County 83.92
2 Nevada County 83.73
3 Sierra County 83.53
4 Calaveras County 80.18
5 Tuolumne County 79.48
6 Shasta County 78.45
7 Mariposa County 78.13
8 Modoc County 77.84
9 Amador County 76.85
10 El Dorado County 76.69
11 Siskiyou County 76.22
12 Trinity County 72.16
13 Humboldt County 71.88
14 Placer County 71.30
15 Mono County 70.85
16 Butte County 70.67
17 San Luis Obispo County 70.23
18 Lake County 68.74
19 Marin County 68.38
20 Tehama County 68.25
21 Alpine County 67.61
22 Mendocino County 64.97
23 Lassen County 64.36
24 Sonoma County 62.73
25 Del Norte County 61.97
26 Inyo County 61.80
27 Santa Cruz County 59.28
28 Yuba County 57.11
29 Napa County 55.18
30 Glenn County 54.48
31 Ventura County 50.80
32 Santa Barbara County 50.14
33 Yolo County 49.59
34 San Diego County 49.51
35 Sutter County 46.98
36 Stanislaus County 46.41
37 Sacramento County 45.15
38 Orange County 43.40
39 Contra Costa County 43.03
40 Colusa County 42.88
41 San Benito County 42.41
42 Madera County 41.76
43 San Francisco County 41.35
44 Riverside County 41.17
45 Kern County 40.88
46 Kings County 40.15
47 Tulare County 39.37
48 San Mateo County 39.27
49 Solano County 38.76
50 Merced County 37.17
51 Fresno County 37.15
52 Monterey County 36.19
53 San Bernardino County 35.88
54 San Joaquin County 34.31
55 Los Angeles County 32.55
56 Santa Clara County 32.16
57 Alameda County 31.14
58 Imperial County 26.45