Ranking of Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania counties, in April 2020, among all Pennsylvania counties, Philadelphia County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (39.31%), followed by Delaware County (22.41%), and Dauphin County (17.76%).
The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of Pennsylvania 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 | Philadelphia County | 39.31 |
| 2 | Delaware County | 22.41 |
| 3 | Dauphin County | 17.76 |
| 4 | Forest County | 17.74 |
| 5 | Monroe County | 14.79 |
| 6 | Allegheny County | 13.09 |
| 7 | Montgomery County | 9.55 |
| 8 | Erie County | 7.60 |
| 9 | Lehigh County | 7.37 |
| 10 | Beaver County | 6.64 |
| 11 | Northampton County | 6.21 |
| 12 | York County | 6.13 |
| 13 | Union County | 6.05 |
| 14 | Mercer County | 5.77 |
| 15 | Pike County | 5.61 |
| 16 | Chester County | 5.53 |
| 17 | Huntingdon County | 5.15 |
| 18 | Berks County | 5.13 |
| 19 | Lycoming County | 5.11 |
| 20 | Luzerne County | 4.98 |
| 21 | Fayette County | 4.49 |
| 22 | Cambria County | 4.37 |
| 23 | Cumberland County | 4.27 |
| 24 | Lawrence County | 4.26 |
| 25 | Bucks County | 4.08 |
| 26 | Lancaster County | 4.05 |
| 27 | Lackawanna County | 3.87 |
| 28 | Centre County | 3.46 |
| 29 | Franklin County | 3.42 |
| 30 | Wayne County | 3.37 |
| 31 | Washington County | 3.32 |
| 32 | Schuylkill County | 3.07 |
| 33 | Greene County | 3.01 |
| 34 | Indiana County | 3.00 |
| 35 | Northumberland County | 2.81 |
| 36 | Westmoreland County | 2.59 |
| 37 | Somerset County | 2.54 |
| 38 | Clearfield County | 2.37 |
| 39 | Lebanon County | 2.26 |
| 40 | McKean County | 2.14 |
| 41 | Blair County | 2.06 |
| 42 | Carbon County | 1.87 |
| 43 | Montour County | 1.83 |
| 44 | Crawford County | 1.82 |
| 45 | Adams County | 1.50 |
| 46 | Clarion County | 1.48 |
| 47 | Sullivan County | 1.46 |
| 48 | Columbia County | 1.41 |
| 49 | Snyder County | 1.36 |
| 50 | Clinton County | 1.19 |
| 51 | Butler County | 1.16 |
| 52 | Wyoming County | 0.89 |
| 53 | Fulton County | 0.88 |
| 54 | Venango County | 0.88 |
| 55 | Mifflin County | 0.84 |
| 56 | Tioga County | 0.84 |
| 57 | Armstrong County | 0.68 |
| 58 | Bradford County | 0.67 |
| 59 | Perry County | 0.66 |
| 60 | Juniata County | 0.57 |
| 61 | Bedford County | 0.40 |
| 62 | Warren County | 0.39 |
| 63 | Susquehanna County | 0.38 |
| 64 | Cameron County | 0.35 |
| 65 | Jefferson County | 0.29 |
| 66 | Elk County | 0.26 |
| 67 | Potter County | 0.26 |