Ranking of Illinois 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 Illinois counties, in April 2020, among all Illinois counties, Jasper County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (96.57%), followed by Edwards County (96.38%), and Scott County (96.28%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all Illinois 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 Illinois.

Ranking of Illinois Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Edwards
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Greene
Clark
Cumberland
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Ranking of Illinois Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Jasper County 96.57
2 Edwards County 96.38
3 Scott County 96.28
4 Shelby County 96.22
5 Greene County 95.89
6 Clark County 95.66
7 Cumberland County 95.54
8 Wayne County 95.54
9 Henderson County 95.38
10 Edgar County 95.28
11 Calhoun County 95.27
12 Moultrie County 95.11
13 Hamilton County 95.10
14 Gallatin County 95.03
15 Stark County 94.98
16 Mason County 94.93
17 Pike County 94.78
18 Hancock County 94.68
19 Washington County 94.67
20 Clay County 94.25
21 Richland County 94.20
22 White County 94.13
23 Piatt County 94.12
24 Mercer County 94.04
25 Effingham County 94.03
26 Menard County 93.97
27 Monroe County 93.97
28 Jersey County 93.94
29 Woodford County 93.85
30 Franklin County 93.78
31 De Witt County 93.62
32 Macoupin County 93.58
33 Hardin County 93.56
34 Marshall County 93.38
35 Jo Daviess County 93.37
36 Pope County 93.36
37 Wabash County 93.13
38 Christian County 92.38
39 Tazewell County 92.19
40 Ford County 92.05
41 Fayette County 92.04
42 Putnam County 91.80
43 Fulton County 91.65
44 Montgomery County 91.46
45 Crawford County 91.18
46 Douglas County 90.45
47 Saline County 90.38
48 Schuyler County 89.99
49 Union County 89.96
50 Carroll County 89.91
51 Clinton County 89.66
52 Livingston County 89.54
53 Adams County 89.50
54 Iroquois County 89.39
55 Henry County 89.12
56 Marion County 88.63
57 Bureau County 88.31
58 Logan County 88.14
59 Williamson County 87.71
60 Morgan County 87.46
61 Coles County 87.14
62 Bond County 86.37
63 Massac County 85.96
64 Ogle County 85.96
65 Grundy County 85.86
66 Whiteside County 85.76
67 McDonough County 85.65
68 LaSalle County 85.58
69 Perry County 85.55
70 Lee County 85.25
71 Randolph County 84.96
72 Jefferson County 84.71
73 Lawrence County 84.33
74 Johnson County 82.49
75 Warren County 82.22
76 Madison County 81.42
77 Knox County 81.38
78 Stephenson County 80.46
79 McHenry County 79.91
80 Sangamon County 77.42
81 McLean County 77.30
82 Vermilion County 77.21
83 Brown County 76.54
84 DeKalb County 73.95
85 Cass County 73.06
86 Macon County 72.90
87 Boone County 72.53
88 Jackson County 72.06
89 Rock Island County 71.15
90 Kankakee County 71.00
91 Kendall County 68.44
92 Peoria County 67.44
93 Winnebago County 66.98
94 DuPage County 66.12
95 Will County 63.70
96 Alexander County 63.19
97 Pulaski County 62.80
98 Champaign County 62.70
99 Lake County 60.95
100 Kane County 59.99
101 St. Clair County 59.59
102 Cook County 44.47