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
Geary
Leavenworth
Sedgwick
Shawnee
Riley
Montgomery
Ellsworth
Pawnee
Atchison
Ranking of Kansas 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 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
26 Sherman County 2.21
27 Lyon County 2.12
28 Kiowa County 2.06
29 Rice County 1.91
30 Harvey County 1.84
31 Allen County 1.75
32 McPherson County 1.71
33 Thomas County 1.52
34 Cloud County 1.50
35 Pratt County 1.38
36 Miami County 1.32
37 Franklin County 1.28
38 Barton County 1.19
39 Ellis County 1.18
40 Brown County 1.13
41 Pottawatomie County 1.11
42 Marion County 1.05
43 Chase County 0.98
44 Neosho County 0.97
45 Morton County 0.88
46 Russell County 0.87
46 Sumner County 0.87
47 Kearny County 0.85
48 Jackson County 0.82
49 Rooks County 0.76
50 Chautauqua County 0.72
51 Meade County 0.70
52 Stanton County 0.67
53 Dickinson County 0.64
54 Clay County 0.62
54 Edwards County 0.62
55 Jefferson County 0.59
56 Nemaha County 0.58
57 Hodgeman County 0.54
58 Hamilton County 0.50
58 Ottawa County 0.50
58 Rawlins County 0.50
59 Greenwood County 0.49
60 Wabaunsee County 0.46
61 Anderson County 0.45
61 Coffey County 0.45
61 Stafford County 0.45
62 Decatur County 0.41
62 Republic County 0.41
63 Cherokee County 0.40
64 Comanche County 0.39
64 Smith County 0.39
65 Linn County 0.38
66 Stevens County 0.37
67 Lincoln County 0.35
68 Cheyenne County 0.34
68 Harper County 0.34
69 Kingman County 0.31
70 Haskell County 0.30
71 Scott County 0.29
72 Marshall County 0.28
72 Phillips County 0.28
72 Woodson County 0.28
73 Wallace County 0.27
74 Mitchell County 0.25
75 Trego County 0.23
76 Gove County 0.20
77 Grant County 0.19
78 Gray County 0.17
78 Rush County 0.17
78 Wilson County 0.17
79 Elk County 0.16
79 Osage County 0.16
80 Morris County 0.14
81 Washington County 0.12
82 Jewell County 0.09
82 Ness County 0.09
83 Clark County 0.07
84 Barber County 0.06
84 Wichita County 0.06
85 Osborne County 0.04
86 Greeley County 0.00
86 Lane County 0.00
86 Logan County 0.00
86 Sheridan County 0.00