Ranking of South 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 South Carolina counties, in April 2020, among all South Carolina counties, Oconee County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (83.66%), followed by Pickens County (82.72%), and Horry County (77.13%).

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

Ranking of South Carolina Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
Oconee
Pickens
Horry
Anderson
Lexington
Cherokee
Beaufort
Abbeville
Lancaster
York
Ranking of South Carolina Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Oconee County 83.66
2 Pickens County 82.72
3 Horry County 77.13
4 Anderson County 75.78
5 Lexington County 72.35
6 Cherokee County 71.52
7 Beaufort County 69.94
8 Abbeville County 69.47
9 Lancaster County 68.89
10 York County 68.01
11 Kershaw County 67.36
12 Greenville County 67.22
13 Spartanburg County 66.90
14 Laurens County 66.75
15 Charleston County 65.82
16 Georgetown County 65.54
17 Aiken County 65.17
18 Union County 63.82
19 Dorchester County 62.80
20 Saluda County 61.87
21 Newberry County 61.67
22 Berkeley County 61.54
23 Chesterfield County 60.52
24 Edgefield County 59.77
25 Greenwood County 59.42
26 Chester County 58.09
27 Colleton County 57.16
28 Calhoun County 55.93
29 McCormick County 54.40
30 Darlington County 54.21
31 Barnwell County 50.96
32 Florence County 50.89
33 Clarendon County 49.71
34 Jasper County 47.64
35 Dillon County 46.48
36 Sumter County 44.91
37 Hampton County 43.83
38 Richland County 42.60
39 Fairfield County 40.92
40 Marlboro County 40.65
41 Marion County 38.40
42 Bamberg County 37.91
43 Lee County 34.91
44 Orangeburg County 33.33
45 Williamsburg County 33.03
46 Allendale County 25.00