Ranking of North Carolina 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 North Carolina counties, Clay County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as White Alone (93.10%), followed by Mitchell County (93.09%), and Ashe County (93.06%).
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 White Alone.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of North Carolina 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. |
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| 1 | Clay County | 93.10 |
| 2 | Mitchell County | 93.09 |
| 3 | Ashe County | 93.06 |
| 4 | Yancey County | 92.70 |
| 5 | Haywood County | 92.23 |
| 6 | Madison County | 91.81 |
| 7 | Stokes County | 90.58 |
| 8 | Cherokee County | 90.26 |
| 9 | Dare County | 89.68 |
| 10 | Transylvania County | 89.55 |
| 11 | Polk County | 89.27 |
| 12 | Alleghany County | 89.15 |
| 13 | Avery County | 89.02 |
| 14 | Graham County | 88.96 |
| 15 | Macon County | 88.72 |
| 16 | Wilkes County | 88.48 |
| 17 | Carteret County | 87.70 |
| 18 | McDowell County | 87.62 |
| 19 | Caldwell County | 87.41 |
| 20 | Alexander County | 86.98 |
| 21 | Currituck County | 86.55 |
| 22 | Yadkin County | 85.67 |
| 23 | Surry County | 85.48 |
| 24 | Lincoln County | 85.29 |
| 25 | Davie County | 85.03 |
| 26 | Watauga County | 84.83 |
| 27 | Brunswick County | 84.56 |
| 28 | Rutherford County | 83.98 |
| 29 | Henderson County | 83.63 |
| 30 | Buncombe County | 83.59 |
| 31 | Burke County | 82.10 |
| 32 | Camden County | 81.10 |
| 33 | Jackson County | 80.73 |
| 34 | Stanly County | 80.70 |
| 35 | Davidson County | 80.50 |
| 36 | Randolph County | 80.24 |
| 37 | Moore County | 79.47 |
| 38 | New Hanover County | 78.11 |
| 39 | Catawba County | 77.38 |
| 40 | Iredell County | 77.23 |
| 41 | Pender County | 76.93 |
| 42 | Pamlico County | 76.27 |
| 43 | Chatham County | 74.52 |
| 44 | Perquimans County | 73.85 |
| 45 | Rockingham County | 73.71 |
| 46 | Cleveland County | 73.69 |
| 47 | Rowan County | 72.85 |
| 48 | Union County | 72.01 |
| 49 | Gaston County | 71.82 |
| 50 | Beaufort County | 69.85 |
| 51 | Montgomery County | 69.24 |
| 52 | Orange County | 69.08 |
| 53 | Craven County | 68.95 |
| 54 | Onslow County | 68.94 |
| 55 | Johnston County | 68.81 |
| 56 | Person County | 67.33 |
| 57 | Swain County | 65.86 |
| 58 | Franklin County | 65.57 |
| 59 | Alamance County | 65.19 |
| 60 | Jones County | 64.92 |
| 61 | Hyde County | 64.81 |
| 62 | Gates County | 64.74 |
| 63 | Cabarrus County | 64.68 |
| 64 | Harnett County | 64.33 |
| 65 | Lee County | 64.32 |
| 66 | Chowan County | 63.18 |
| 67 | Caswell County | 62.92 |
| 68 | Columbus County | 61.75 |
| 69 | Tyrrell County | 61.50 |
| 70 | Wake County | 61.40 |
| 71 | Forsyth County | 59.65 |
| 72 | Richmond County | 58.92 |
| 73 | Granville County | 58.72 |
| 74 | Duplin County | 56.65 |
| 75 | Bladen County | 56.40 |
| 76 | Pasquotank County | 56.21 |
| 77 | Wayne County | 55.98 |
| 78 | Sampson County | 55.97 |
| 79 | Pitt County | 55.19 |
| 80 | Martin County | 54.64 |
| 81 | Nash County | 52.49 |
| 82 | Lenoir County | 52.17 |
| 83 | Guilford County | 51.84 |
| 84 | Greene County | 50.71 |
| 85 | Anson County | 50.24 |
| 86 | Wilson County | 50.22 |
| 87 | Mecklenburg County | 49.63 |
| 88 | Washington County | 48.57 |
| 89 | Durham County | 45.81 |
| 90 | Scotland County | 45.35 |
| 91 | Cumberland County | 44.96 |
| 92 | Vance County | 42.38 |
| 93 | Hoke County | 42.10 |
| 94 | Northampton County | 41.96 |
| 95 | Warren County | 41.77 |
| 96 | Halifax County | 41.56 |
| 97 | Edgecombe County | 38.44 |
| 98 | Hertford County | 37.83 |
| 99 | Bertie County | 36.40 |
| 100 | Robeson County | 28.52 |