Ranking of US States By Percentage of Voting-age Population that are Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Updated on August 26, 2023.
According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census, as at April 2020, District of Columbia had the highest percentage of a state's voting-age population who identified their race as Black or African American Alone (39.32%), followed by Mississippi (35.26%), and Georgia (30.27%).
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 voting-age population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone.
You can see similar ranking information for other racial groups in the United States.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau, 2020 Census.
Ranking of US States By Percentage of Voting-age Population that are
Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
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| Rank | State | % of State Voting-age Population |
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| 1 | District of Columbia | 39.32 |
| 2 | Mississippi | 35.26 |
| 3 | Georgia | 30.27 |
| 4 | Louisiana | 30.07 |
| 5 | Maryland | 29.16 |
| 6 | Alabama | 25.06 |
| 7 | South Carolina | 24.20 |
| 8 | Delaware | 21.04 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 20.10 |
| 10 | Virginia | 18.41 |
| 11 | Tennessee | 15.18 |
| 12 | New York | 14.46 |
| 13 | Arkansas | 14.42 |
| 14 | Florida | 13.95 |
| 15 | Illinois | 13.74 |
| 16 | Michigan | 13.03 |
| 17 | New Jersey | 12.86 |
| 18 | Texas | 12.02 |
| 19 | Ohio | 11.79 |
| 20 | Missouri | 10.85 |
| 21 | Pennsylvania | 10.34 |
| 22 | Connecticut | 10.25 |
| 23 | Nevada | 9.37 |
| 24 | Indiana | 9.01 |
| 25 | Kentucky | 7.71 |
| 26 | Oklahoma | 7.18 |
| 27 | Massachusetts | 6.62 |
| 28 | Minnesota | 5.93 |
| 29 | Wisconsin | 5.72 |
| 30 | California | 5.70 |
| 31 | Kansas | 5.62 |
| 32 | Rhode Island | 5.22 |
| 33 | Nebraska | 4.55 |
| 34 | Arizona | 4.47 |
| 35 | Colorado | 3.89 |
| 36 | Washington | 3.82 |
| 37 | West Virginia | 3.68 |
| 38 | Iowa | 3.60 |
| 39 | Alaska | 3.12 |
| 40 | North Dakota | 3.02 |
| 41 | New Mexico | 2.10 |
| 42 | Oregon | 1.85 |
| 43 | South Dakota | 1.74 |
| 44 | Hawaii | 1.65 |
| 45 | Maine | 1.53 |
| 46 | New Hampshire | 1.32 |
| 47 | Vermont | 1.22 |
| 48 | Utah | 1.16 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 0.88 |
| 50 | Idaho | 0.76 |
| 51 | Montana | 0.48 |