Ranking of US Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Population that are Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Updated on August 25, 2023.
According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census, as at April 2020, among all US counties, Claiborne County, MS had the highest percentage of a US county's voting-age population who identified their race as Black or African American Alone (85.95%), followed by Jefferson County, MS (83.67%), and Holmes County, MS (81.48%).
The chart below shows the top 10, and the table below shows the ranking of the top 200 counties based on the percentage of each county's voting-age population that identified as Black or African American Alone.
You can see similar ranking information for other racial groups in the US.
You can also see links at the bottom of the page for similar ranking of counties for each state.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of US Counties By Percentage of Voting-age Pop.
that are Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Rank | County | Black Alone % of County Voting-age Pop. |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claiborne County, MS | 85.95 |
| 2 | Jefferson County, MS | 83.67 |
| 3 | Holmes County, MS | 81.48 |
| 4 | Macon County, AL | 79.19 |
| 5 | Greene County, AL | 79.18 |
| 6 | Humphreys County, MS | 75.77 |
| 7 | Tunica County, MS | 73.78 |
| 8 | Petersburg city, VA | 73.27 |
| 9 | Coahoma County, MS | 73.23 |
| 10 | Quitman County, MS | 71.42 |
| 11 | Leflore County, MS | 71.19 |
| 12 | Sumter County, AL | 71.13 |
| 13 | Bullock County, AL | 70.51 |
| 14 | Clayton County, GA | 69.68 |
| 15 | Noxubee County, MS | 69.60 |
| 16 | Washington County, MS | 69.14 |
| 17 | Allendale County, SC | 68.46 |
| 18 | Wilcox County, AL | 68.27 |
| 19 | Dallas County, AL | 67.89 |
| 20 | Sharkey County, MS | 67.83 |
| 21 | Lowndes County, AL | 67.65 |
| 22 | Sunflower County, MS | 67.59 |
| 23 | Dougherty County, GA | 67.57 |
| 24 | East Carroll Parish, LA | 67.43 |
| 25 | Hinds County, MS | 67.28 |
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Ranking of Counties By Black or African American Alone Voting-age Population Percentage for each US State from Census 2020
Use the following links to see the ranking of counties by Black or African American Alone voting-age population percentage for each of the following US states from the Census 2020.