Ranking of US States By Percentage of Population that are Some Other Race Alone from Census 2020

Updated on February 12, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census, in April 2020, California had the highest percentage of a state's population who identified their race as Some Other Race Alone (21.17%), followed by New Mexico (15.05%), and Nevada (14.04%).

The chart below shows the top 10, and the table below shows the ranking of all the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on the percentage of each state's population that identify their race as Some Other Race Alone.

You can see similar ranking information for other racial groups as well as for the different ethnicities in the United States.

Related Topics: US Census 2020 Topic List.
Ranking of US States By Percentage of Pop. that are Some Other Race Alone from Census 2020
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Ranking of US States By Percentage of Pop. that are Some Other Race Alone from Census 2020
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Rank State % of State Population
1 California 21.17
2 New Mexico 15.05
3 Nevada 14.04
4 Texas 13.56
5 Arizona 12.58
6 New Jersey 11.29
7 New York 10.94
8 Rhode Island 9.44
9 Illinois 8.86
10 Connecticut 8.30
11 Colorado 8.04
12 Florida 7.26
13 Massachusetts 7.07
14 Utah 6.73
15 Washington 6.66
16 Maryland 6.65
17 Oregon 6.26
18 North Carolina 5.91
19 Idaho 5.64
20 Oklahoma 5.41
21 District of Columbia 5.41
22 Nebraska 5.36
23 Georgia 5.18
24 Virginia 5.18
25 Kansas 4.95
26 Delaware 4.90
27 Arkansas 4.52
28 Pennsylvania 3.91
29 Indiana 3.85
30 Tennessee 3.56
31 South Carolina 3.48
32 Wyoming 3.48
33 Wisconsin 3.09
34 Louisiana 3.06
35 Minnesota 2.95
36 Iowa 2.78
37 Alabama 2.74
38 Alaska 2.49
39 Michigan 2.20
40 Kentucky 2.14
41 Missouri 2.08
42 Mississippi 1.92
43 Ohio 1.90
44 Hawaii 1.84
45 New Hampshire 1.75
46 South Dakota 1.70
47 North Dakota 1.46
48 Montana 1.30
49 Vermont 0.82
50 West Virginia 0.72
51 Maine 0.71