Ranking of New Jersey Counties By Percentage of Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for New Jersey counties, in April 2020, among all New Jersey counties, Essex County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (38.79%), followed by Union County (20.39%), and Mercer County (19.36%).

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