Ranking of Alabama Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020

Updated on August 26, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census, as at April 2020, among all Alabama counties, Macon County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (79.19%), followed by Greene County (79.18%), and Sumter County (71.13%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all Alabama counties based on the percentage of the voting-age 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 in Alabama.

Ranking of Alabama Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Macon
Greene
Sumter
Bullock
Wilcox
Dallas
Lowndes
Perry
Hale
Montgomery
Ranking of Alabama Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County Black Alone % of County Voting-age Pop.
1 Macon County 79.19
2 Greene County 79.18
3 Sumter County 71.13
4 Bullock County 70.51
5 Wilcox County 68.27
6 Dallas County 67.89
7 Lowndes County 67.65
8 Perry County 67.12
9 Hale County 55.47
10 Montgomery County 55.16
11 Marengo County 51.39
12 Barbour County 46.08
13 Clarke County 43.26
14 Russell County 43.03
15 Conecuh County 42.70
16 Butler County 42.45
17 Choctaw County 41.41
18 Monroe County 40.75
19 Jefferson County 40.55
20 Chambers County 37.93
21 Pickens County 37.68
22 Pike County 35.53
23 Mobile County 33.56
24 Talladega County 31.29
25 Escambia County 29.73
26 Tuscaloosa County 28.72
27 Coosa County 28.66
28 Henry County 25.14
29 Houston County 24.78
30 Tallapoosa County 23.75
31 Madison County 23.24
32 Crenshaw County 23.18
33 Lee County 22.21
34 Washington County 21.86
35 Calhoun County 21.53
36 Bibb County 20.33
36 Elmore County 20.33
37 Dale County 19.73
38 Autauga County 18.78
39 Randolph County 16.98
40 Coffee County 16.30
41 Colbert County 15.90
42 Etowah County 14.16
43 Clay County 13.54
44 Limestone County 13.17
45 Shelby County 12.56
46 Morgan County 12.11
47 Covington County 11.85
48 Lawrence County 10.53
49 Fayette County 10.45
50 Lamar County 10.39
51 St. Clair County 9.46
52 Lauderdale County 9.43
53 Chilton County 8.93
54 Geneva County 8.53
55 Baldwin County 7.45
56 Walker County 5.86
57 Cherokee County 4.09
58 Franklin County 3.81
59 Marion County 3.78
60 Cleburne County 3.20
61 Jackson County 3.13
62 Marshall County 2.35
63 DeKalb County 1.54
64 Blount County 1.43
65 Cullman County 1.07
66 Winston County 0.57