Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were White 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 California counties, Plumas County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as White Alone (85.78%), followed by Nevada County (85.71%), and Sierra County (85.47%).

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

Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were White Alone from Census 2020
Plumas
Nevada
Sierra
Calaveras
Shasta
Tuolumne
Mariposa
Modoc
Siskiyou
El Dorado
Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Voting-age Pop.
1 Plumas County 85.78
2 Nevada County 85.71
3 Sierra County 85.47
4 Calaveras County 81.93
5 Shasta County 80.81
6 Tuolumne County 80.56
7 Mariposa County 80.38
8 Modoc County 80.06
9 Siskiyou County 79.33
10 El Dorado County 79.15
11 Amador County 77.74
12 Humboldt County 75.04
13 Placer County 74.01
14 Mono County 73.98
15 Trinity County 73.96
16 Butte County 73.14
17 Alpine County 72.94
18 San Luis Obispo County 72.83
19 Lake County 72.47
20 Tehama County 71.70
21 Marin County 70.98
22 Mendocino County 69.25
23 Inyo County 66.50
24 Sonoma County 66.39
25 Del Norte County 64.40
26 Lassen County 63.24
27 Santa Cruz County 62.47
28 Yuba County 60.60
29 Napa County 58.86
30 Glenn County 57.76
31 Ventura County 53.79
32 Santa Barbara County 53.73
33 San Diego County 52.17
34 Yolo County 52.00
35 Sutter County 49.70
36 Stanislaus County 49.54
37 Sacramento County 48.33
38 Colusa County 46.51
39 Contra Costa County 45.83
40 Orange County 45.65
41 San Benito County 45.21
42 Madera County 45.06
43 Riverside County 44.05
44 Kern County 43.32
45 San Francisco County 42.79
46 Tulare County 42.01
47 Kings County 41.69
48 Solano County 41.22
49 San Mateo County 41.05
50 Fresno County 40.08
51 Monterey County 39.55
52 Merced County 39.53
53 San Bernardino County 38.08
54 San Joaquin County 37.28
55 Los Angeles County 34.28
56 Santa Clara County 34.22
57 Alameda County 33.52
58 Imperial County 26.68