Ranking of US States By Percentage of Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020

Updated on March 27, 2023.

According to the data from the US 2020 decennial Census, in April 2020, among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, District of Columbia had the highest percentage of a state's population who identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone (40.91%), followed by Mississippi (36.44%), and Louisiana (31.18%).

The chart below shows the top 10 states, and the table below shows the ranking of all the 50 US states and the District of Columbia based on the percentage of each state's population 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.

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Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.

Ranking of US States By Percentage of Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black Alone from Census 2020

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Ranking of US States By Percentage of Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black Alone from Census 2020

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Rank	State	% of State Population
1	District of Columbia	40.91
2	Mississippi	36.44
3	Louisiana	31.18
4	Georgia	30.60
5	Maryland	29.06
6	Alabama	25.64
7	South Carolina	24.79
8	Delaware	21.51
9	North Carolina	20.19
10	Virginia	18.28
11	Tennessee	15.68
12	Arkansas	14.94
13	Florida	14.52
14	Illinois	13.86
15	New York	13.66
16	Michigan	13.48
17	New Jersey	12.43
18	Ohio	12.35
19	Texas	11.82
20	Missouri	11.26
21	Pennsylvania	10.53
22	Connecticut	10.01
23	Indiana	9.40
24	Nevada	9.40
25	Kentucky	7.94
26	Oklahoma	7.15
27	Minnesota	6.88
28	Massachusetts	6.50
29	Wisconsin	6.22
30	Kansas	5.56
31	California	5.36
32	Rhode Island	5.05
33	Nebraska	4.81
34	Arizona	4.43
35	Iowa	4.05
36	Washington	3.84
37	Colorado	3.83
38	West Virginia	3.61
39	North Dakota	3.36
40	Alaska	2.83
41	South Dakota	1.97
42	Oregon	1.86
43	Maine	1.84
44	New Mexico	1.81
45	Hawaii	1.50
46	New Hampshire	1.35
47	Vermont	1.35
48	Utah	1.14
49	Wyoming	0.82
50	Idaho	0.80
51	Montana	0.47

US Census 2020 Ranking of Counties By Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone Population for Each State

Use the links below to see the ranking of counties by the percentage of the population that identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone for each of the following states from the 2020 decennial Census.