Ranking of Mississippi 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 Mississippi counties, Claiborne County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (85.95%), followed by Jefferson County (83.67%), and Holmes County (81.48%).
The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all Mississippi 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 Mississippi.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of Mississippi 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 | Claiborne County | 85.95 |
| 2 | Jefferson County | 83.67 |
| 3 | Holmes County | 81.48 |
| 4 | Humphreys County | 75.77 |
| 5 | Tunica County | 73.78 |
| 6 | Coahoma County | 73.23 |
| 7 | Quitman County | 71.42 |
| 8 | Leflore County | 71.19 |
| 9 | Noxubee County | 69.60 |
| 10 | Washington County | 69.14 |
| 11 | Sharkey County | 67.83 |
| 12 | Sunflower County | 67.59 |
| 13 | Hinds County | 67.28 |
| 14 | Wilkinson County | 65.43 |
| 15 | Bolivar County | 60.44 |
| 16 | Kemper County | 59.55 |
| 17 | Jefferson Davis County | 57.12 |
| 18 | Yazoo County | 56.92 |
| 19 | Issaquena County | 55.83 |
| 20 | Clay County | 55.67 |
| 21 | Tallahatchie County | 55.55 |
| 22 | Adams County | 54.26 |
| 23 | Pike County | 50.91 |
| 24 | Jasper County | 49.12 |
| 25 | Copiah County | 48.86 |
| 26 | Panola County | 45.76 |
| 27 | Warren County | 45.20 |
| 28 | Marshall County | 43.80 |
| 29 | Winston County | 43.49 |
| 30 | Lowndes County | 42.62 |
| 31 | Montgomery County | 42.59 |
| 32 | Chickasaw County | 42.12 |
| 33 | Grenada County | 41.88 |
| 34 | Lauderdale County | 41.81 |
| 35 | Attala County | 40.41 |
| 36 | Walthall County | 39.88 |
| 37 | Leake County | 37.73 |
| 38 | Wayne County | 37.41 |
| 39 | Amite County | 36.88 |
| 40 | Yalobusha County | 35.20 |
| 41 | Scott County | 35.12 |
| 42 | Forrest County | 34.65 |
| 43 | Madison County | 34.53 |
| 44 | Benton County | 34.32 |
| 45 | Covington County | 33.89 |
| 46 | Oktibbeha County | 33.02 |
| 47 | Simpson County | 32.82 |
| 48 | Franklin County | 32.51 |
| 49 | Clarke County | 31.94 |
| 50 | Marion County | 30.48 |
| 51 | Lawrence County | 29.96 |
| 52 | Carroll County | 29.77 |
| 53 | Newton County | 29.73 |
| 54 | Monroe County | 29.55 |
| 55 | Lincoln County | 29.35 |
| 56 | DeSoto County | 28.82 |
| 57 | Tate County | 28.42 |
| 58 | Choctaw County | 27.49 |
| 59 | Lee County | 27.32 |
| 60 | Jones County | 26.98 |
| 61 | Calhoun County | 25.53 |
| 62 | Greene County | 25.47 |
| 63 | Harrison County | 22.82 |
| 64 | Neshoba County | 21.23 |
| 65 | Lamar County | 20.92 |
| 66 | Smith County | 20.64 |
| 67 | Jackson County | 20.25 |
| 68 | Rankin County | 20.13 |
| 69 | Lafayette County | 19.43 |
| 70 | Perry County | 18.28 |
| 71 | Webster County | 17.79 |
| 72 | Stone County | 17.54 |
| 73 | Tippah County | 15.82 |
| 74 | Prentiss County | 14.23 |
| 75 | Union County | 14.11 |
| 76 | Pontotoc County | 13.55 |
| 77 | Alcorn County | 12.02 |
| 78 | Pearl River County | 11.63 |
| 79 | Hancock County | 7.84 |
| 80 | George County | 7.35 |
| 81 | Itawamba County | 6.81 |
| 82 | Tishomingo County | 2.42 |