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
79.19%
Greene
79.18%
Sumter
71.13%
Bullock
70.51%
Wilcox
68.27%
Dallas
67.89%
Lowndes
67.65%
Perry
67.12%
Hale
55.47%
Montgomery
55.16%
Ranking of Alabama Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
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
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