Ranking of Maine 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 Maine counties, in April 2020, among all Maine counties, Androscoggin County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (5.88%), followed by Cumberland County (4.00%), and Penobscot County (0.99%).

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

Ranking of Maine Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Androscoggin
Cumberland
Penobscot
York
Sagadahoc
Kennebec
Aroostook
Knox
Hancock
Franklin
Ranking of Maine 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 Androscoggin County 5.88
2 Cumberland County 4.00
3 Penobscot County 0.99
4 York County 0.99
5 Sagadahoc County 0.86
6 Kennebec County 0.74
7 Aroostook County 0.67
8 Knox County 0.67
9 Hancock County 0.64
10 Franklin County 0.59
11 Washington County 0.52
12 Somerset County 0.50
13 Lincoln County 0.47
14 Oxford County 0.40
15 Waldo County 0.37
16 Piscataquis County 0.36