Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Percentage of Population that were Asian Alone from Census 2020
Updated on February 25, 2023.
According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for North Carolina counties, in April 2020, among all North Carolina counties, Wake County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as Asian Alone (8.59%), followed by Orange County (8.52%), and Mecklenburg County (6.46%).
The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all North Carolina counties based on the percentage of the population that identified as Asian 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 North Carolina.
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Related Topics: North Carolina Census 2020 Topic List.
Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of North Carolina Counties By
Percentage of Pop. that were Asian Alone
from Census 2020
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| Rank | County | Asian Alone % of County Pop. |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wake County | 8.59 |
| 2 | Orange County | 8.52 |
| 3 | Mecklenburg County | 6.46 |
| 4 | Guilford County | 5.34 |
| 5 | Cabarrus County | 5.31 |
| 6 | Durham County | 5.18 |
| 7 | Catawba County | 4.37 |
| 8 | Union County | 4.02 |
| 9 | Burke County | 3.62 |
| 10 | Craven County | 3.07 |
| 11 | Cumberland County | 2.74 |
| 12 | Iredell County | 2.56 |
| 13 | Forsyth County | 2.43 |
| 14 | Onslow County | 2.31 |
| 15 | Chatham County | 2.13 |
| 16 | Stanly County | 1.83 |
| 17 | Pitt County | 1.81 |
| 18 | Watauga County | 1.75 |
| 19 | Alamance County | 1.66 |
| 20 | New Hanover County | 1.56 |
| 21 | Gaston County | 1.55 |
| 22 | Montgomery County | 1.53 |
| 23 | Randolph County | 1.51 |
| 24 | Davidson County | 1.46 |
| 25 | Hoke County | 1.44 |
| 26 | Wayne County | 1.35 |
| 27 | Tyrrell County | 1.33 |
| 28 | Moore County | 1.27 |
| 29 | Buncombe County | 1.23 |
| 30 | Jackson County | 1.19 |
| 31 | Henderson County | 1.16 |
| 32 | Pasquotank County | 1.16 |
| 33 | Camden County | 1.15 |
| 34 | Wilson County | 1.14 |
| 35 | Harnett County | 1.12 |
| 36 | Alexander County | 1.08 |
| 37 | Lee County | 1.05 |
| 38 | Rowan County | 1.04 |
| 39 | Anson County | 1.00 |
| 40 | Scotland County | 1.00 |
| 41 | Currituck County | 0.98 |
| 42 | Nash County | 0.96 |
| 43 | Carteret County | 0.88 |
| 44 | Cleveland County | 0.87 |
| 45 | Johnston County | 0.87 |
| 46 | McDowell County | 0.87 |
| 47 | Richmond County | 0.85 |
| 48 | Lincoln County | 0.82 |
| 49 | Robeson County | 0.78 |
| 50 | Dare County | 0.72 |
| 51 | Macon County | 0.72 |
| 52 | Caldwell County | 0.68 |
| 53 | Franklin County | 0.68 |
| 54 | Brunswick County | 0.67 |
| 55 | Vance County | 0.67 |
| 56 | Davie County | 0.66 |
| 57 | Granville County | 0.61 |
| 58 | Lenoir County | 0.61 |
| 59 | Haywood County | 0.60 |
| 60 | Halifax County | 0.58 |
| 61 | Hertford County | 0.57 |
| 62 | Pender County | 0.57 |
| 63 | Cherokee County | 0.55 |
| 64 | Rockingham County | 0.55 |
| 65 | Rutherford County | 0.54 |
| 66 | Surry County | 0.53 |
| 67 | Transylvania County | 0.52 |
| 68 | Pamlico County | 0.51 |
| 69 | Wilkes County | 0.49 |
| 70 | Martin County | 0.45 |
| 71 | Madison County | 0.41 |
| 72 | Ashe County | 0.39 |
| 73 | Sampson County | 0.39 |
| 74 | Swain County | 0.38 |
| 75 | Yadkin County | 0.38 |
| 76 | Beaufort County | 0.37 |
| 77 | Jones County | 0.37 |
| 78 | Clay County | 0.36 |
| 79 | Duplin County | 0.36 |
| 80 | Mitchell County | 0.36 |
| 81 | Stokes County | 0.36 |
| 82 | Avery County | 0.35 |
| 83 | Bertie County | 0.35 |
| 84 | Washington County | 0.34 |
| 85 | Warren County | 0.33 |
| 86 | Columbus County | 0.32 |
| 87 | Person County | 0.32 |
| 88 | Polk County | 0.31 |
| 89 | Perquimans County | 0.30 |
| 90 | Chowan County | 0.29 |
| 91 | Caswell County | 0.28 |
| 92 | Graham County | 0.27 |
| 93 | Gates County | 0.24 |
| 94 | Edgecombe County | 0.23 |
| 95 | Yancey County | 0.22 |
| 96 | Greene County | 0.18 |
| 97 | Bladen County | 0.16 |
| 98 | Northampton County | 0.16 |
| 99 | Hyde County | 0.15 |
| 100 | Alleghany County | 0.14 |