Ranking of North Carolina 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 North Carolina counties, Bertie County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (59.08%), followed by Hertford County (55.81%), and Edgecombe County (55.06%).
The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all North Carolina 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 North Carolina.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of North Carolina 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. |
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| 1 | Bertie County | 59.08 |
| 2 | Hertford County | 55.81 |
| 3 | Edgecombe County | 55.06 |
| 4 | Northampton County | 54.16 |
| 5 | Halifax County | 50.20 |
| 6 | Vance County | 48.72 |
| 7 | Warren County | 47.61 |
| 8 | Washington County | 46.94 |
| 9 | Anson County | 44.12 |
| 10 | Martin County | 39.85 |
| 11 | Lenoir County | 39.37 |
| 12 | Nash County | 38.11 |
| 13 | Wilson County | 37.76 |
| 14 | Cumberland County | 37.59 |
| 15 | Scotland County | 37.42 |
| 16 | Greene County | 36.44 |
| 17 | Pasquotank County | 35.47 |
| 18 | Pitt County | 34.03 |
| 19 | Durham County | 33.78 |
| 20 | Hoke County | 33.27 |
| 21 | Guilford County | 32.72 |
| 22 | Bladen County | 32.64 |
| 23 | Chowan County | 31.03 |
| 24 | Caswell County | 30.96 |
| 25 | Granville County | 30.79 |
| 26 | Wayne County | 30.28 |
| 27 | Gates County | 30.01 |
| 28 | Tyrrell County | 29.53 |
| 29 | Richmond County | 29.30 |
| 30 | Mecklenburg County | 29.14 |
| 31 | Jones County | 28.87 |
| 32 | Columbus County | 28.66 |
| 33 | Hyde County | 27.13 |
| 34 | Person County | 25.01 |
| 35 | Sampson County | 24.70 |
| 36 | Duplin County | 24.64 |
| 37 | Forsyth County | 24.55 |
| 38 | Franklin County | 23.36 |
| 39 | Robeson County | 22.97 |
| 40 | Beaufort County | 22.20 |
| 41 | Perquimans County | 20.70 |
| 42 | Harnett County | 20.44 |
| 43 | Cleveland County | 19.59 |
| 44 | Craven County | 19.56 |
| 45 | Alamance County | 19.48 |
| 46 | Rockingham County | 18.49 |
| 47 | Wake County | 18.33 |
| 48 | Cabarrus County | 18.27 |
| 49 | Lee County | 17.17 |
| 50 | Pamlico County | 17.12 |
| 51 | Gaston County | 16.68 |
| 52 | Montgomery County | 16.57 |
| 53 | Johnston County | 15.58 |
| 54 | Rowan County | 15.35 |
| 55 | Pender County | 13.36 |
| 56 | Onslow County | 13.33 |
| 57 | New Hanover County | 11.53 |
| 58 | Union County | 11.41 |
| 59 | Iredell County | 11.18 |
| 60 | Stanly County | 11.08 |
| 61 | Camden County | 11.04 |
| 62 | Orange County | 10.74 |
| 63 | Moore County | 10.62 |
| 64 | Chatham County | 10.51 |
| 65 | Davidson County | 9.20 |
| 66 | Rutherford County | 9.07 |
| 67 | Brunswick County | 7.93 |
| 68 | Catawba County | 7.90 |
| 69 | Randolph County | 6.02 |
| 70 | Burke County | 5.76 |
| 71 | Davie County | 5.70 |
| 72 | Alexander County | 5.63 |
| 73 | Buncombe County | 5.42 |
| 74 | Lincoln County | 5.24 |
| 75 | Currituck County | 5.00 |
| 76 | Carteret County | 4.79 |
| 77 | Caldwell County | 4.72 |
| 78 | Avery County | 4.38 |
| 79 | Watauga County | 4.26 |
| 80 | McDowell County | 4.05 |
| 81 | Wilkes County | 4.03 |
| 82 | Stokes County | 3.82 |
| 83 | Surry County | 3.51 |
| 84 | Polk County | 3.46 |
| 85 | Yadkin County | 3.01 |
| 86 | Transylvania County | 2.92 |
| 87 | Henderson County | 2.80 |
| 88 | Jackson County | 2.21 |
| 89 | Dare County | 1.85 |
| 90 | Madison County | 1.20 |
| 91 | Cherokee County | 1.15 |
| 92 | Haywood County | 1.08 |
| 93 | Alleghany County | 1.00 |
| 94 | Swain County | 0.84 |
| 95 | Macon County | 0.67 |
| 96 | Yancey County | 0.60 |
| 97 | Clay County | 0.57 |
| 98 | Graham County | 0.56 |
| 99 | Ashe County | 0.44 |
| 100 | Mitchell County | 0.34 |