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
96.74%
Lincoln
96.73%
Ritchie
96.58%
Wirt
96.52%
Calhoun
96.37%
Wyoming
96.31%
Braxton
96.22%
Tyler
96.01%
Nicholas
95.93%
Mason
95.87%
Ranking of West Virginia Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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
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