Georgia Black or African American Alone Voting-age Population By County in Census 2020

Updated on August 25, 2023.

According to the data from the US 2020 decennial Census, as at April 2020, among all the Georgia voting-age population (18 years and over), there were 2,488,419 people who identified their race as Black or African American Alone, which is 30.27% of the total voting-age population of Georgia.

Fulton County had the highest number of Black or African American Alone voting-age population (352,132), followed by DeKalb County (301,682), and Gwinnett County (188,825).

On the other hand, the three counties with low number of Black or African American Alone voting-age population were: Fannin County (65), Rabun County (76), and Gilmer County (103).

In terms of the percentage of each county's voting-age population, Clayton County had the highest percentage, with 69.68% of its voting-age population identifying their race as Black or African American Alone, followed by Dougherty County (67.57%), and Hancock County (67.22%).

You can see similar information for other states and also for the United States by state. You can also see similar information for other racial groups as well as the different ethnicities in Georgia.

Hover over or click on the counties to see the number and percentage of each county's voting-age population that identified as Black or African American Alone. The data can also be filtered, sorted, and explored further in a table below.

Georgia Black or African American Alone Voting-age Population By County in Census 2020
Georgia Black or African American Alone Voting-age Population By County in Census 2020
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County Black Alone Voting-age Population % of County Voting-age Population
Appling County 2441 17.49
Atkinson County 907 14.80
Bacon County 1174 14.13
Baker County 907 39.87
Baldwin County 14233 39.83
Banks County 312 2.25
Barrow County 7566 12.17
Bartow County 8656 10.36
Ben Hill County 4608 35.00
Berrien County 1406 10.27
Bibb County 62618 51.79
Bleckley County 1990 20.70
Brantley County 412 3.01
Brooks County 4240 33.26
Bryan County 4591 14.42
Bulloch County 17476 27.10
Burke County 8142 43.36
Butts County 5512 27.07
Calhoun County 2970 63.37
Camden County 7244 17.33
Candler County 1968 23.88
Carroll County 16743 18.40
Catoosa County 1381 2.63
Charlton County 2068 20.41
Chatham County 81665 34.79
Chattahoochee County 1119 15.54
Chattooga County 2087 10.75
Cherokee County 13095 6.45
Clarke County 23514 22.01
Clay County 1209 53.83
Clayton County 153694 69.68
Clinch County 1360 27.02
Cobb County 155087 26.20
Coffee County 8935 27.56
Colquitt County 7207 21.08
Columbia County 20435 17.80
Cook County 3487 26.95
Coweta County 19021 17.11
Crawford County 1846 19.22
Crisp County 6436 41.34
Dade County 110 0.85
Dawson County 155 0.72
Decatur County 9023 40.20
DeKalb County 301682 50.68
Dodge County 4612 29.36
Dooly County 4479 48.75
Dougherty County 44775 67.57
Douglas County 51030 47.06
Early County 4013 48.26
Echols County 107 3.95
Effingham County 6327 13.38
Elbert County 3996 25.79
Emanuel County 5282 30.50
Evans County 2327 28.63
Fannin County 65 0.31
Fayette County 22380 24.38
Floyd County 10411 13.65
Forsyth County 7469 4.12
Franklin County 1428 7.80
Fulton County 352132 41.57
Gilmer County 103 0.41
Glascock County 156 6.98
Glynn County 14952 22.50
Gordon County 1634 3.76
Grady County 5473 27.42
Greene County 4362 28.40
Gwinnett County 188825 26.61
Habersham County 1485 4.14
Hall County 11039 7.18
Hancock County 5033 67.22
Haralson County 1004 4.39
Harris County 4214 15.72
Hart County 3291 16.10
Heard County 756 8.69
Henry County 85738 47.64
Houston County 37797 30.95
Irwin County 1662 22.02
Jackson County 3890 6.89
Jasper County 1904 17.13
Jeff Davis County 1673 15.41
Jefferson County 6191 50.33
Jenkins County 2788 39.80
Johnson County 2464 32.97
Jones County 5205 24.13
Lamar County 3889 26.75
Lanier County 1597 21.80
Laurens County 13247 35.11
Lee County 5361 21.73
Liberty County 20177 42.02
Lincoln County 1679 26.78
Long County 2861 25.47
Lowndes County 32112 36.07
Lumpkin County 367 1.33
McDuffie County 6258 37.67
McIntosh County 2545 28.15
Macon County 5949 59.86
Madison County 2096 9.07
Marion County 1649 28.17
Meriwether County 5730 34.67
Miller County 1321 27.82
Mitchell County 7765 45.50
Monroe County 4902 22.37
Montgomery County 1740 25.62
Morgan County 3184 20.44
Murray County 204 0.68
Muscogee County 71127 45.29
Newton County 38662 45.62
Oconee County 1503 4.97
Oglethorpe County 1765 15.17
Paulding County 26356 21.26
Peach County 9497 42.95
Pickens County 239 0.89
Pierce County 1187 7.97
Pike County 1173 8.18
Polk County 3791 11.76
Pulaski County 2526 31.53
Putnam County 4097 22.96
Quitman County 742 39.68
Rabun County 76 0.55
Randolph County 2868 57.63
Richmond County 84660 52.62
Rockdale County 40235 56.27
Schley County 633 19.02
Screven County 4031 37.01
Seminole County 2236 30.73
Spalding County 16927 32.48
Stephens County 2280 10.77
Stewart County 2001 43.34
Sumter County 11222 48.72
Talbot County 2505 52.37
Taliaferro County 699 54.23
Tattnall County 4746 26.88
Taylor County 2179 35.60
Telfair County 3762 36.92
Terrell County 4190 58.16
Thomas County 12021 34.31
Tift County 8685 27.82
Toombs County 4870 24.04
Towns County 112 1.02
Treutlen County 1481 30.02
Troup County 17655 33.58
Turner County 2681 38.52
Twiggs County 2566 38.94
Union County 109 0.52
Upson County 6035 27.80
Walker County 2173 4.12
Walton County 12526 17.14
Ware County 7959 28.64
Warren County 2319 55.76
Washington County 8204 52.23
Wayne County 4501 19.48
Webster County 818 44.29
Wheeler County 2535 40.78
White County 386 1.72
Whitfield County 2870 3.76
Wilcox County 2671 37.01
Wilkes County 3009 39.33
Wilkinson County 2489 35.43
Worth County 3992 24.28