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.

Related Topics: US Census 2020 Topic List.
Ranking of US States By Black or African American Alone Population from Census 2020
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Rank State Black Alone Population
1 Texas 3552997
2 Georgia 3320513
3 Florida 3246381
4 New York 2986172
5 California 2237044
6 North Carolina 2140217
7 Maryland 1820472
8 Illinois 1808271
9 Virginia 1607581
10 Ohio 1478781
11 Louisiana 1464023
12 Pennsylvania 1423169
13 Michigan 1376579
14 Alabama 1296162
15 South Carolina 1280531
16 New Jersey 1219770
17 Tennessee 1092948
18 Mississippi 1084481
19 Missouri 699840
20 Indiana 648513
21 Massachusetts 494029
22 Arkansas 453783
23 Minnesota 398434
24 Connecticut 388675
25 Wisconsin 376256
26 Kentucky 362417
27 Arizona 339150
28 Washington 307565
29 Nevada 304739
30 Oklahoma 289961
31 District of Columbia 285810
32 Colorado 234828
33 Delaware 218899
34 Kansas 168809
35 Iowa 131972
36 Nebraska 96535
37 Oregon 82655
38 West Virginia 65813
39 Rhode Island 62168
40 New Mexico 45904
41 Utah 40058
42 North Dakota 26783
43 Maine 25752
44 Hawaii 23417
45 Alaska 21898
46 New Hampshire 20127
47 South Dakota 17842
48 Idaho 15726
49 Vermont 9034
50 Montana 5484
51 Wyoming 5232