Ranking of West Virginia 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 West Virginia counties, in April 2020, among all West Virginia counties, Webster County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (96.74%), followed by Lincoln County (96.73%), and Ritchie County (96.58%).

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

Ranking of West Virginia Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
Webster
Lincoln
Ritchie
Wirt
Calhoun
Wyoming
Braxton
Tyler
Nicholas
Mason
Ranking of West Virginia Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Webster County 96.74
2 Lincoln County 96.73
3 Ritchie County 96.58
4 Wirt County 96.52
5 Calhoun County 96.37
6 Wyoming County 96.31
7 Braxton County 96.22
8 Tyler County 96.01
9 Nicholas County 95.93
10 Mason County 95.87
11 Wayne County 95.79
12 Grant County 95.56
13 Tucker County 95.49
14 Jackson County 95.41
15 Boone County 95.28
16 Clay County 95.28
17 Pocahontas County 95.27
18 Wetzel County 95.22
19 Pendleton County 95.15
20 Monroe County 95.11
21 Mingo County 94.97
22 Lewis County 94.89
23 Roane County 94.85
24 Logan County 94.83
25 Pleasants County 94.71
26 Upshur County 94.37
27 Hampshire County 94.29
28 Marshall County 94.14
29 Taylor County 94.04
30 Morgan County 93.68
31 Randolph County 93.60
32 Doddridge County 93.55
33 Barbour County 93.50
34 Putnam County 92.90
35 Wood County 92.73
36 Brooke County 92.71
37 Greenbrier County 92.06
38 Mineral County 91.82
39 Hancock County 91.63
40 Harrison County 91.53
41 Summers County 91.40
42 Fayette County 90.11
43 Preston County 90.11
44 Marion County 89.99
45 Hardy County 89.76
46 Ohio County 89.03
47 Mercer County 88.08
48 Cabell County 87.62
49 Raleigh County 85.84
50 Monongalia County 85.06
51 Kanawha County 85.00
52 McDowell County 84.74
53 Gilmer County 83.96
54 Jefferson County 81.15
55 Berkeley County 80.51