Ranking of Tennessee 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 Tennessee counties, in April 2020, among all Tennessee counties, Pickett County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (96.56%), followed by Scott County (96.34%), and Hancock County (95.93%).

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

Ranking of Tennessee Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
Pickett
Scott
Hancock
Clay
Van Buren
Fentress
Campbell
Union
Overton
Claiborne
Ranking of Tennessee Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Pickett County 96.56
2 Scott County 96.34
3 Hancock County 95.93
4 Clay County 95.59
5 Van Buren County 95.49
6 Fentress County 95.37
7 Campbell County 94.90
8 Union County 94.79
9 Overton County 94.76
10 Claiborne County 94.17
11 Hawkins County 93.70
12 Grundy County 93.66
13 Polk County 93.65
14 Jackson County 93.51
15 Moore County 93.33
16 Grainger County 93.23
17 Meigs County 93.23
18 Cumberland County 93.01
19 Lewis County 92.62
20 Perry County 92.61
21 Carter County 92.58
22 Decatur County 92.39
23 Lawrence County 92.21
24 Sequatchie County 92.16
25 Cocke County 91.75
26 White County 91.47
27 Smith County 91.40
28 Unicoi County 91.40
29 Benton County 91.32
30 Sullivan County 91.30
31 Stewart County 91.26
32 Houston County 91.24
33 Hardin County 91.19
34 Greene County 91.00
35 Humphreys County 90.94
36 Morgan County 90.94
37 Cannon County 90.91
38 Roane County 90.75
39 Jefferson County 90.63
40 Johnson County 90.45
41 Macon County 90.40
42 Monroe County 90.12
43 Wayne County 89.92
44 Marion County 89.72
45 Hickman County 89.67
46 Cheatham County 89.57
47 Bledsoe County 88.90
48 McNairy County 88.85
49 DeKalb County 88.46
50 Blount County 88.24
51 Rhea County 88.19
52 Dickson County 87.65
53 McMinn County 87.40
54 Franklin County 87.10
55 Sevier County 87.07
56 Anderson County 86.70
57 Henderson County 86.48
58 Loudon County 86.28
59 Coffee County 85.83
60 Washington County 85.71
61 Henry County 85.50
62 Lincoln County 85.49
63 Weakley County 85.45
64 Putnam County 85.08
65 Warren County 84.96
66 Carroll County 84.38
67 Chester County 84.27
68 Marshall County 83.64
69 Giles County 82.94
70 Bradley County 82.45
71 Williamson County 82.19
72 Wilson County 81.76
73 Obion County 81.23
74 Sumner County 80.54
75 Robertson County 80.31
76 Hamblen County 79.45
77 Knox County 79.23
78 Dyer County 77.75
79 Maury County 77.09
80 Trousdale County 76.48
81 Gibson County 75.91
82 Bedford County 75.63
83 Tipton County 74.46
84 Crockett County 73.61
85 Hamilton County 69.58
86 Lake County 68.88
87 Fayette County 66.34
88 Rutherford County 66.25
89 Montgomery County 62.61
90 Lauderdale County 60.23
91 Davidson County 55.96
92 Hardeman County 55.27
93 Madison County 54.90
94 Haywood County 43.08
95 Shelby County 35.07