Ranking of Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania counties, Philadelphia County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (37.61%), followed by Delaware County (20.85%), and Forest County (19.34%).

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

Ranking of Pennsylvania Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Philadelphia
Delaware
Forest
Dauphin
Monroe
Allegheny
Montgomery
Union
Lehigh
Erie
Ranking of Pennsylvania 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 Philadelphia County 37.61
2 Delaware County 20.85
3 Forest County 19.34
4 Dauphin County 16.50
5 Monroe County 13.84
6 Allegheny County 12.01
7 Montgomery County 9.27
8 Union County 6.82
9 Lehigh County 6.74
10 Erie County 6.73
11 Beaver County 6.09
12 Huntingdon County 5.95
13 Northampton County 5.62
14 York County 5.59
15 Chester County 5.54
16 Mercer County 5.38
17 Pike County 5.31
18 Berks County 4.84
19 Lycoming County 4.76
20 Fayette County 4.36
21 Luzerne County 4.34
22 Cumberland County 3.90
23 Bucks County 3.82
24 Lawrence County 3.76
25 Wayne County 3.75
26 Lancaster County 3.74
27 Cambria County 3.66
27 Centre County 3.66
28 Greene County 3.59
29 Schuylkill County 3.31
30 Lackawanna County 3.30
31 Washington County 3.29
32 Indiana County 3.27
33 Franklin County 3.19
34 Somerset County 2.98
35 Northumberland County 2.77
36 Clearfield County 2.76
37 McKean County 2.56
38 Westmoreland County 2.30
39 Lebanon County 2.03
40 Blair County 1.90
41 Crawford County 1.81
42 Carbon County 1.64
43 Clarion County 1.57
44 Adams County 1.49
45 Montour County 1.47
46 Sullivan County 1.40
47 Snyder County 1.39
48 Columbia County 1.32
49 Clinton County 1.17
50 Butler County 1.09
51 Wyoming County 0.97
52 Tioga County 0.87
53 Fulton County 0.80
54 Venango County 0.76
55 Mifflin County 0.75
56 Armstrong County 0.68
57 Perry County 0.66
58 Bradford County 0.58
59 Juniata County 0.53
60 Cameron County 0.43
61 Bedford County 0.37
62 Warren County 0.35
63 Susquehanna County 0.34
64 Jefferson County 0.28
65 Potter County 0.26
66 Elk County 0.23