Ranking of South 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 South Carolina counties, Allendale County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (68.46%), followed by Williamsburg County (62.31%), and Lee County (60.08%).

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

Ranking of South Carolina Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Allendale
Williamsburg
Lee
Orangeburg
Bamberg
Marion
Fairfield
Hampton
Marlboro
Sumter
Ranking of South 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.
1 Allendale County 68.46
2 Williamsburg County 62.31
3 Lee County 60.08
4 Orangeburg County 59.52
5 Bamberg County 57.69
6 Marion County 54.17
7 Fairfield County 52.00
8 Hampton County 51.10
9 Marlboro County 49.68
10 Sumter County 45.28
11 Richland County 44.09
12 Dillon County 43.84
13 Clarendon County 43.77
14 Barnwell County 41.42
15 Florence County 40.26
16 McCormick County 39.21
17 Darlington County 39.08
18 Calhoun County 38.13
19 Chester County 34.12
20 Colleton County 33.97
21 Edgefield County 33.09
22 Jasper County 32.49
23 Union County 30.41
24 Chesterfield County 29.86
25 Greenwood County 29.12
26 Newberry County 26.77
27 Georgetown County 26.61
28 Abbeville County 25.55
29 Dorchester County 23.45
30 Laurens County 23.17
31 Kershaw County 23.16
32 Aiken County 22.48
33 Berkeley County 22.24
34 Saluda County 21.89
35 Charleston County 21.80
36 Cherokee County 19.63
37 Lancaster County 19.40
38 Spartanburg County 19.18
39 York County 18.03
40 Greenville County 16.25
41 Anderson County 14.40
42 Beaufort County 13.80
43 Lexington County 13.79
44 Horry County 10.47
45 Pickens County 6.47
46 Oconee County 6.41