Texas 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 Texas voting-age population (18 years and over), there were 2,627,714 people who identified their race as Black or African American Alone, which is 12.02% of the total voting-age population of Texas.

Harris County had the highest number of Black or African American Alone voting-age population (669,372), followed by Dallas County (431,270), and Tarrant County (262,756).

On the other hand, the three counties with low number of Black or African American Alone voting-age population were: Throckmorton County (0), Loving County (0), and King County (0).

In terms of the percentage of each county's voting-age population, Jefferson County had the highest percentage, with 32.34% of its voting-age population identifying their race as Black or African American Alone, followed by Waller County (24.36%), and Bowie County (24.05%).

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 Texas.

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.

Texas Black or African American Alone Voting-age Population By County in Census 2020
Texas 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
Anderson County 9888 20.87
Andrews County 183 1.41
Angelina County 9544 14.67
Aransas County 197 0.99
Archer County 27 0.41
Armstrong County 10 0.70
Atascosa County 306 0.85
Austin County 1813 7.83
Bailey County 39 0.81
Bandera County 96 0.55
Bastrop County 4465 6.11
Baylor County 46 1.75
Bee County 2214 8.85
Bell County 60111 22.09
Bexar County 119626 7.91
Blanco County 66 0.70
Borden County 0 0.00
Bosque County 216 1.49
Bowie County 17203 24.05
Brazoria County 40692 14.75
Brazos County 17732 9.54
Brewster County 154 1.96
Briscoe County 13 1.17
Brooks County 8 0.15
Brown County 1084 3.63
Burleson County 1446 10.40
Burnet County 492 1.26
Caldwell County 1903 5.59
Calhoun County 341 2.20
Callahan County 97 0.91
Cameron County 1383 0.46
Camp County 1427 15.27
Carson County 17 0.39
Cass County 3452 15.53
Castro County 81 1.54
Chambers County 2439 7.29
Cherokee County 4947 13.06
Childress County 532 10.00
Clay County 30 0.37
Cochran County 57 3.14
Coke County 7 0.27
Coleman County 113 1.83
Collin County 78760 10.01
Collingsworth County 91 4.58
Colorado County 1756 10.91
Comal County 3047 2.41
Comanche County 26 0.25
Concho County 75 2.63
Cooke County 881 2.80
Coryell County 9319 14.89
Cottle County 69 6.29
Crane County 61 1.82
Crockett County 14 0.59
Crosby County 106 2.78
Culberson County 21 1.22
Dallam County 58 1.16
Dallas County 431270 21.86
Dawson County 811 8.58
Deaf Smith County 121 0.93
Delta County 238 5.83
Denton County 71706 10.57
DeWitt County 1279 8.30
Dickens County 21 1.53
Dimmit County 63 1.00
Donley County 121 4.67
Duval County 157 2.09
Eastland County 293 2.10
Ector County 5784 4.84
Edwards County 2 0.18
Ellis County 17264 12.25
El Paso County 21269 3.30
Erath County 1112 3.29
Falls County 2931 21.80
Fannin County 1906 6.78
Fayette County 1041 5.37
Fisher County 74 2.59
Floyd County 101 2.57
Foard County 11 1.22
Fort Bend County 123103 20.62
Franklin County 276 3.44
Freestone County 2293 15.00
Frio County 664 4.80
Gaines County 191 1.35
Galveston County 32769 12.26
Garza County 225 4.70
Gillespie County 71 0.32
Glasscock County 8 0.95
Goliad County 214 3.89
Gonzales County 888 6.05
Gray County 736 4.57
Grayson County 5744 5.53
Gregg County 18787 19.99
Grimes County 3144 13.64
Guadalupe County 9578 7.47
Hale County 1191 4.93
Hall County 148 6.73
Hamilton County 22 0.34
Hansford County 12 0.32
Hardeman County 113 4.12
Hardin County 2297 5.39
Harris County 669372 19.02
Harrison County 10386 20.02
Hartley County 192 4.55
Haskell County 170 3.92
Hays County 7881 4.25
Hemphill County 2 0.08
Henderson County 3665 5.65
Hidalgo County 3330 0.55
Hill County 1546 5.63
Hockley County 474 2.97
Hood County 348 0.71
Hopkins County 1826 6.55
Houston County 4174 23.34
Howard County 1253 4.67
Hudspeth County 8 0.30
Hunt County 6206 8.15
Hutchinson County 343 2.22
Irion County 4 0.34
Jack County 284 4.27
Jackson County 704 6.21
Jasper County 4147 16.24
Jeff Davis County 1 0.06
Jefferson County 63275 32.34
Jim Hogg County 4 0.11
Jim Wells County 179 0.63
Johnson County 4968 3.71
Jones County 1906 11.78
Karnes County 1100 9.28
Kaufman County 14767 14.25
Kendall County 245 0.72
Kenedy County 1 0.38
Kent County 2 0.33
Kerr County 627 1.45
Kimble County 8 0.23
King County 0 0.00
Kinney County 36 1.40
Kleberg County 897 3.77
Knox County 116 4.59
Lamar County 4763 12.40
Lamb County 315 3.31
Lampasas County 597 3.54
La Salle County 225 4.27
Lavaca County 888 5.66
Lee County 1268 9.63
Leon County 779 6.28
Liberty County 5731 8.52
Limestone County 2858 16.72
Lipscomb County 4 0.17
Live Oak County 199 2.14
Llano County 81 0.45
Loving County 0 0.00
Lubbock County 20312 8.55
Lynn County 80 2.00
McCulloch County 78 1.30
McLennan County 26847 13.60
McMullen County 3 0.62
Madison County 2149 20.08
Marion County 1495 18.65
Martin County 53 1.43
Mason County 9 0.28
Matagorda County 2810 10.35
Maverick County 136 0.33
Medina County 1179 3.03
Menard County 13 0.81
Midland County 7985 6.49
Milam County 1658 8.69
Mills County 13 0.36
Mitchell County 857 11.88
Montague County 41 0.26
Montgomery County 25015 5.46
Moore County 506 3.39
Morris County 1927 20.72
Motley County 7 0.83
Nacogdoches County 7892 15.78
Navarro County 4822 12.29
Newton County 1606 16.61
Nolan County 464 4.21
Nueces County 10900 4.04
Ochiltree County 12 0.17
Oldham County 7 0.57
Orange County 5740 8.90
Palo Pinto County 423 1.92
Panola County 2524 14.70
Parker County 1231 1.11
Parmer County 58 0.83
Pecos County 512 4.42
Polk County 4088 10.05
Potter County 8944 10.10
Presidio County 16 0.34
Rains County 209 2.17
Randall County 3407 3.19
Reagan County 32 1.33
Real County 17 0.75
Red River County 1400 15.09
Reeves County 248 2.13
Refugio County 341 6.50
Roberts County 2 0.32
Robertson County 2305 18.12
Rockwall County 5778 7.36
Runnels County 122 1.60
Rusk County 6741 16.56
Sabine County 551 6.83
San Augustine County 1334 21.22
San Jacinto County 1720 8.02
San Patricio County 872 1.70
San Saba County 121 2.63
Schleicher County 23 1.23
Scurry County 538 4.25
Shackelford County 10 0.42
Shelby County 2858 15.82
Sherman County 7 0.36
Smith County 28994 16.34
Somervell County 27 0.39
Starr County 51 0.11
Stephens County 216 3.03
Sterling County 3 0.30
Stonewall County 14 1.40
Sutton County 8 0.31
Swisher County 344 6.53
Tarrant County 262756 16.69
Taylor County 8297 7.64
Terrell County 8 1.30
Terry County 365 4.25
Throckmorton County 0 0.00
Titus County 2253 9.95
Tom Green County 3404 3.71
Travis County 78930 7.77
Trinity County 858 7.81
Tyler County 1729 10.82
Upshur County 2318 7.51
Upton County 56 2.30
Uvalde County 127 0.69
Val Verde County 496 1.42
Van Zandt County 1162 2.53
Victoria County 4223 6.14
Walker County 14103 21.75
Waller County 10523 24.36
Ward County 338 3.98
Washington County 4377 15.49
Webb County 885 0.48
Wharton County 4224 13.49
Wheeler County 58 1.54
Wichita County 10600 10.53
Wilbarger County 853 8.60
Willacy County 448 2.89
Williamson County 29643 6.54
Wilson County 644 1.71
Winkler County 122 2.18
Wise County 549 1.06
Wood County 1424 3.90
Yoakum County 40 0.73
Young County 138 1.01
Zapata County 17 0.18
Zavala County 56 0.81