Ranking of Mississippi 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 Mississippi counties, in April 2020, among all Mississippi counties, Tishomingo County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (92.04%), followed by Itawamba County (88.91%), and George County (86.70%).

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 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 Mississippi.

Ranking of Mississippi Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
Tishomingo
Itawamba
George
Hancock
Prentiss
Alcorn
Pearl River
Union
Webster
Perry
Ranking of Mississippi Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Tishomingo County 92.04
2 Itawamba County 88.91
3 George County 86.70
4 Hancock County 82.18
5 Prentiss County 81.19
6 Alcorn County 80.58
7 Pearl River County 79.85
8 Union County 78.31
9 Webster County 77.84
10 Perry County 77.68
11 Pontotoc County 77.37
12 Tippah County 77.04
13 Stone County 76.00
14 Smith County 74.69
15 Greene County 72.79
16 Rankin County 71.88
17 Lafayette County 70.37
18 Lamar County 69.22
19 Choctaw County 67.83
20 Monroe County 66.21
21 Calhoun County 66.15
22 Lincoln County 66.15
23 Jackson County 66.11
24 Carroll County 65.44
25 Lawrence County 65.31
26 Tate County 64.74
27 Marion County 64.73
28 Franklin County 64.12
29 Lee County 64.07
30 Clarke County 63.96
31 Jones County 62.57
32 Simpson County 61.61
33 Harrison County 61.40
34 Covington County 60.62
35 Newton County 60.39
36 Benton County 59.93
37 DeSoto County 59.39
38 Yalobusha County 59.14
39 Amite County 58.67
40 Wayne County 57.39
41 Oktibbeha County 57.17
42 Neshoba County 56.81
43 Forrest County 55.78
44 Madison County 55.73
45 Walthall County 54.69
46 Attala County 52.77
47 Grenada County 52.43
48 Montgomery County 52.07
49 Chickasaw County 50.65
50 Lauderdale County 50.59
51 Lowndes County 50.57
52 Winston County 50.21
53 Marshall County 48.89
54 Scott County 48.06
55 Leake County 47.69
56 Panola County 47.47
57 Warren County 47.24
58 Jasper County 46.20
59 Copiah County 43.38
60 Pike County 41.88
61 Issaquena County 39.61
62 Tallahatchie County 39.55
63 Clay County 38.70
64 Jefferson Davis County 38.49
65 Yazoo County 37.43
66 Adams County 37.22
67 Bolivar County 32.63
68 Kemper County 31.38
69 Wilkinson County 29.48
70 Sunflower County 26.55
71 Noxubee County 25.87
72 Hinds County 25.75
73 Sharkey County 25.53
74 Washington County 25.08
75 Quitman County 24.13
76 Leflore County 21.25
77 Coahoma County 20.16
78 Tunica County 19.11
79 Humphreys County 18.47
80 Holmes County 13.99
81 Jefferson County 12.31
82 Claiborne County 10.66