Ranking of Arkansas 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 Arkansas counties, Phillips County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (59.70%), followed by Jefferson County (54.23%), and Lee County (52.71%).

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

Ranking of Arkansas Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Phillips
59.70%
Jefferson
54.23%
Lee
52.71%
St. Francis
51.79%
Crittenden
50.98%
Chicot
50.76%
Desha
45.33%
Dallas
38.67%
Monroe
38.48%
Ouachita
37.87%
Ranking of Arkansas 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 Phillips County 59.70
2 Jefferson County 54.23
3 Lee County 52.71
4 St. Francis County 51.79
5 Crittenden County 50.98
6 Chicot County 50.76
7 Desha County 45.33
8 Dallas County 38.67
9 Monroe County 38.48
10 Ouachita County 37.87
11 Pulaski County 34.18
12 Columbia County 33.45
13 Mississippi County 33.24
14 Lafayette County 31.78
15 Union County 31.35
16 Lincoln County 30.25
17 Nevada County 29.10
18 Bradley County 27.63
19 Hempstead County 27.56
20 Drew County 27.28
21 Woodruff County 26.35
22 Miller County 24.35
23 Ashley County 23.93
24 Clark County 23.32
25 Arkansas County 23.12
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