Ranking of West Virginia 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 West Virginia counties, Webster County had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified their race as White Alone (97.17%), followed by Lincoln County (97.01%), and Wirt County (96.89%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all West Virginia counties based on the percentage of the voting-age population that identified as White Alone.

You can see similar ranking information for other states. You can also see similar rankings of counties for other racial groups in West Virginia.

Ranking of West Virginia Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that were White Alone from Census 2020
Webster
Lincoln
Wirt
Ritchie
Calhoun
Braxton
Wyoming
Mason
Tyler
Tucker
Ranking of West Virginia 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.
1 Webster County 97.17
2 Lincoln County 97.01
3 Wirt County 96.89
4 Ritchie County 96.80
5 Calhoun County 96.65
6 Braxton County 96.63
7 Wyoming County 96.61
8 Mason County 96.55
9 Tyler County 96.48
10 Tucker County 96.43
11 Wayne County 96.33
12 Jackson County 96.20
13 Nicholas County 96.11
14 Pocahontas County 95.92
15 Grant County 95.81
16 Monroe County 95.77
17 Clay County 95.76
18 Wetzel County 95.70
19 Boone County 95.62
20 Pendleton County 95.53
21 Lewis County 95.47
22 Mingo County 95.39
23 Roane County 95.35
24 Logan County 95.18
25 Pleasants County 95.04
26 Hampshire County 94.95
27 Marshall County 94.84
28 Upshur County 94.73
29 Morgan County 94.60
30 Taylor County 94.56
31 Randolph County 94.26
32 Putnam County 93.85
33 Brooke County 93.82
34 Barbour County 93.76
35 Wood County 93.68
36 Doddridge County 93.63
37 Hancock County 92.92
38 Greenbrier County 92.83
39 Mineral County 92.81
40 Harrison County 92.56
41 Summers County 91.62
42 Marion County 91.10
43 Hardy County 91.02
44 Ohio County 90.90
45 Fayette County 90.68
46 Mercer County 89.56
47 Preston County 89.39
48 Cabell County 88.90
49 Kanawha County 86.67
50 Raleigh County 86.59
51 Monongalia County 86.18
52 McDowell County 84.45
53 Jefferson County 83.07
54 Berkeley County 82.81
55 Gilmer County 81.88