Ranking of North Carolina 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 North Carolina counties, in April 2020, among all North Carolina counties, Ashe County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (91.94%), followed by Mitchell County (91.68%), and Clay County (91.53%).

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 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 North Carolina.

Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
Ashe
91.94%
Mitchell
91.68%
Clay
91.53%
Madison
91.41%
Yancey
91.32%
Haywood
90.90%
Stokes
89.77%
Cherokee
89.11%
Avery
88.43%
Dare
87.85%
Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
Rank
County
White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Ashe County 91.94
2 Mitchell County 91.68
3 Clay County 91.53
4 Madison County 91.41
5 Yancey County 91.32
6 Haywood County 90.90
7 Stokes County 89.77
8 Cherokee County 89.11
9 Avery County 88.43
10 Dare County 87.85
11 Transylvania County 87.79
12 Alleghany County 87.66
13 Polk County 87.61
14 Macon County 86.72
15 Wilkes County 86.56
16 Graham County 86.09
17 Carteret County 86.07
18 McDowell County 86.04
19 Alexander County 85.84
20 Caldwell County 85.38
21 Currituck County 84.98
22 Watauga County 84.54
23 Lincoln County 83.77
24 Surry County 83.11
25 Yadkin County 82.88
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