Ranking of Kansas 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 Kansas counties, Wyandotte County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (20.68%), followed by Geary County (17.50%), and Leavenworth County (8.94%).

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

Ranking of Kansas Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Wyandotte
20.68%
Geary
17.50%
Leavenworth
8.94%
Sedgwick
8.46%
Shawnee
7.66%
Riley
6.81%
Montgomery
5.01%
Ellsworth
4.79%
Pawnee
4.75%
Atchison
4.74%
Ranking of Kansas 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 Wyandotte County 20.68
2 Geary County 17.50
3 Leavenworth County 8.94
4 Sedgwick County 8.46
5 Shawnee County 7.66
6 Riley County 6.81
7 Montgomery County 5.01
8 Ellsworth County 4.79
9 Pawnee County 4.75
10 Atchison County 4.74
11 Norton County 4.55
12 Johnson County 4.53
13 Douglas County 4.41
14 Labette County 4.30
15 Doniphan County 4.24
16 Finney County 4.13
17 Bourbon County 3.44
18 Saline County 3.35
19 Seward County 3.32
20 Reno County 3.17
21 Ford County 3.02
22 Cowley County 2.78
23 Graham County 2.57
24 Butler County 2.41
25 Crawford County 2.28
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