Ranking of US States By Black or African American Alone Population from Census 2020
Updated on February 12, 2023.
According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census, in April 2020, Texas had the highest number of people who identified their race as Black or African American Alone (3.55M), followed by Georgia (3.32M), and Florida (3.25M).
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 Black or African American Alone population.
You can see similar ranking information for other racial groups as well as for the different ethnicities in the United States.
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Related Topics: US Census 2020 Topic List.
Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of US States By Black or African American Alone Population from Census 2020
Rank | State | Black Alone Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | 3,552,997 |
| 2 | Georgia | 3,320,513 |
| 3 | Florida | 3,246,381 |
| 4 | New York | 2,986,172 |
| 5 | California | 2,237,044 |
| 6 | North Carolina | 2,140,217 |
| 7 | Maryland | 1,820,472 |
| 8 | Illinois | 1,808,271 |
| 9 | Virginia | 1,607,581 |
| 10 | Ohio | 1,478,781 |
| 11 | Louisiana | 1,464,023 |
| 12 | Pennsylvania | 1,423,169 |
| 13 | Michigan | 1,376,579 |
| 14 | Alabama | 1,296,162 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 1,280,531 |
| 16 | New Jersey | 1,219,770 |
| 17 | Tennessee | 1,092,948 |
| 18 | Mississippi | 1,084,481 |
| 19 | Missouri | 699,840 |
| 20 | Indiana | 648,513 |
| 21 | Massachusetts | 494,029 |
| 22 | Arkansas | 453,783 |
| 23 | Minnesota | 398,434 |
| 24 | Connecticut | 388,675 |
| 25 | Wisconsin | 376,256 |
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