Ranking of Nebraska 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 Nebraska counties, in April 2020, among all Nebraska counties, Douglas County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (11.07%), followed by Dakota County (7.47%), and Johnson County (5.96%).

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

Ranking of Nebraska Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Douglas
Dakota
Johnson
Dawson
Lancaster
Sarpy
Wayne
Colfax
Hall
Dawes
Ranking of Nebraska 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 Douglas County 11.07
2 Dakota County 7.47
3 Johnson County 5.96
4 Dawson County 5.02
5 Lancaster County 4.26
6 Sarpy County 3.91
7 Wayne County 3.62
8 Colfax County 3.57
9 Hall County 3.05
10 Dawes County 2.00
11 Buffalo County 1.28
12 Lincoln County 1.23
13 York County 1.23
14 Madison County 1.16
15 Platte County 1.09
16 Red Willow County 1.06
17 Saline County 0.96
18 Nemaha County 0.93
19 Adams County 0.83
20 Grant County 0.82
21 Scotts Bluff County 0.80
22 Arthur County 0.69
23 Frontier County 0.68
24 Dodge County 0.67
25 Gage County 0.65
26 Cheyenne County 0.63
27 Box Butte County 0.61
28 Seward County 0.60
29 Merrick County 0.57
30 Hooker County 0.56
31 Otoe County 0.56
32 Chase County 0.51
33 Custer County 0.46
34 Morrill County 0.44
35 Holt County 0.43
36 Dundy County 0.42
37 Pierce County 0.42
38 Webster County 0.41
39 Fillmore County 0.40
40 Boone County 0.39
41 Cass County 0.39
42 Phelps County 0.39
43 Stanton County 0.38
44 Garden County 0.37
45 Valley County 0.37
46 Saunders County 0.36
47 Antelope County 0.35
48 Perkins County 0.35
49 Thurston County 0.35
50 Washington County 0.35
51 Butler County 0.34
52 Sherman County 0.34
53 Burt County 0.33
54 Cedar County 0.33
55 Dixon County 0.32
56 Richardson County 0.31
57 Hamilton County 0.29
58 Sheridan County 0.29
59 Jefferson County 0.28
60 Cuming County 0.26
61 Rock County 0.24
62 Blaine County 0.23
63 Keith County 0.23
64 Howard County 0.22
65 Franklin County 0.21
66 Gosper County 0.21
67 Polk County 0.21
68 Cherry County 0.20
69 Thayer County 0.20
70 Furnas County 0.19
71 Knox County 0.19
72 Garfield County 0.17
73 Clay County 0.16
74 Pawnee County 0.16
75 Nuckolls County 0.15
76 Nance County 0.12
77 Brown County 0.07
78 Harlan County 0.07
79 Deuel County 0.05
80 Greeley County 0.05
81 Kearney County 0.05
82 Hitchcock County 0.04
83 Kimball County 0.03
84 Banner County 0.00
85 Boyd County 0.00
86 Hayes County 0.00
87 Keya Paha County 0.00
88 Logan County 0.00
89 Loup County 0.00
90 McPherson County 0.00
91 Sioux County 0.00
92 Thomas County 0.00
93 Wheeler County 0.00