Ranking of US Counties By Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone Population from Census 2020
According to the data from the US 2020 decennial Census, in April 2020, among all the counties in the United States, Cook County, IL had the highest population of people who identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone (1.19M), followed by Harris County, TX (885.52K), and Los Angeles County, CA (760.69K).
The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of the top 200 counties based on the number of people in each county that identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone.
You can see similar ranking information for the other ethnicities as well as for the different racial groups in the United States.
You can also see links at the bottom of the page for similar rankings of each state's counties.
- Ranking of US Counties By the Percentage of the Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
- Ranking of US Cities and Places By Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone Population from Census 2020
- Ranking of US States By Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone Population from Census 2020
Rank | County | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cook County, IL | 1,185,601 |
| 2 | Harris County, TX | 885,517 |
| 3 | Los Angeles County, CA | 760,689 |
| 4 | Kings County, NY | 729,696 |
| 5 | Wayne County, MI | 669,277 |
| 6 | Philadelphia County, PA | 613,835 |
| 7 | Prince George's County, MD | 571,866 |
| 8 | Dallas County, TX | 564,741 |
| 9 | Broward County, FL | 517,618 |
| 10 | Shelby County, TN | 475,074 |
| 11 | Fulton County, GA | 448,803 |
| 12 | Bronx County, NY | 419,393 |
| 13 | DeKalb County, GA | 384,438 |
| 14 | Queens County, NY | 381,375 |
| 15 | Miami-Dade County, FL | 378,756 |
| 16 | Cuyahoga County, OH | 365,169 |
| 17 | Tarrant County, TX | 358,645 |
| 18 | Baltimore city, MD | 335,615 |
| 19 | Mecklenburg County, NC | 324,832 |
| 20 | Essex County, NJ | 324,081 |
| 21 | Franklin County, OH | 296,076 |
| 22 | Duval County, FL | 286,344 |
| 23 | Jefferson County, AL | 280,112 |
| 24 | Clark County, NV | 275,002 |
| 25 | Marion County, IN | 265,659 |