Ranking of Mississippi 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 Mississippi counties, in April 2020, among all Mississippi counties, Claiborne County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (87.46%), followed by Jefferson County (85.28%), and Holmes County (83.86%).
The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all Mississippi 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 Mississippi.
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Related Topics: Mississippi Census 2020 Topic List.
Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of Mississippi 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 | Claiborne County | 87.46 |
| 2 | Jefferson County | 85.28 |
| 3 | Holmes County | 83.86 |
| 4 | Humphreys County | 78.48 |
| 5 | Tunica County | 77.28 |
| 6 | Coahoma County | 76.11 |
| 7 | Leflore County | 73.73 |
| 8 | Quitman County | 73.61 |
| 9 | Washington County | 71.33 |
| 10 | Sharkey County | 70.76 |
| 11 | Noxubee County | 70.27 |
| 12 | Sunflower County | 69.94 |
| 13 | Hinds County | 69.43 |
| 14 | Wilkinson County | 67.39 |
| 15 | Bolivar County | 62.50 |
| 16 | Kemper County | 61.14 |
| 17 | Yazoo County | 59.57 |
| 18 | Jefferson Davis County | 58.68 |
| 19 | Tallahatchie County | 58.62 |
| 20 | Clay County | 57.97 |
| 21 | Adams County | 56.83 |
| 22 | Issaquena County | 56.58 |
| 23 | Pike County | 53.47 |
| 24 | Jasper County | 50.96 |
| 25 | Copiah County | 50.56 |
| 26 | Panola County | 48.46 |
| 27 | Warren County | 47.89 |
| 28 | Winston County | 45.85 |
| 29 | Montgomery County | 44.52 |
| 30 | Marshall County | 44.18 |
| 31 | Lowndes County | 44.15 |
| 32 | Lauderdale County | 44.03 |
| 33 | Grenada County | 43.50 |
| 34 | Chickasaw County | 43.47 |
| 35 | Attala County | 42.92 |
| 36 | Walthall County | 41.29 |
| 37 | Wayne County | 39.09 |
| 38 | Leake County | 38.71 |
| 39 | Amite County | 38.16 |
| 40 | Yalobusha County | 37.16 |
| 41 | Forrest County | 36.25 |
| 42 | Scott County | 35.77 |
| 43 | Madison County | 35.41 |
| 44 | Oktibbeha County | 35.39 |
| 45 | Covington County | 34.98 |
| 46 | Benton County | 34.87 |
| 47 | Simpson County | 34.06 |
| 48 | Franklin County | 33.68 |
| 49 | Clarke County | 32.76 |
| 50 | Marion County | 31.19 |
| 51 | Lawrence County | 30.82 |
| 52 | Carroll County | 30.45 |
| 53 | Newton County | 30.40 |
| 54 | DeSoto County | 30.33 |
| 55 | Monroe County | 30.24 |
| 56 | Lincoln County | 30.20 |
| 57 | Tate County | 29.44 |
| 58 | Lee County | 29.09 |
| 59 | Jones County | 28.61 |
| 60 | Choctaw County | 28.41 |
| 61 | Calhoun County | 26.13 |
| 62 | Harrison County | 24.79 |
| 63 | Greene County | 23.27 |
| 64 | Lamar County | 22.38 |
| 65 | Neshoba County | 22.02 |
| 66 | Smith County | 21.90 |
| 67 | Jackson County | 20.99 |
| 68 | Rankin County | 20.74 |
| 69 | Lafayette County | 20.39 |
| 70 | Perry County | 18.22 |
| 71 | Webster County | 17.98 |
| 72 | Stone County | 17.74 |
| 73 | Tippah County | 15.88 |
| 74 | Union County | 14.31 |
| 75 | Prentiss County | 14.28 |
| 76 | Pontotoc County | 13.55 |
| 77 | Alcorn County | 12.48 |
| 78 | Pearl River County | 11.95 |
| 79 | Hancock County | 8.59 |
| 80 | George County | 7.32 |
| 81 | Itawamba County | 6.81 |
| 82 | Tishomingo County | 2.30 |