Georgia Non-Hispanic Black or African American alone Population By County in 2020

Updated on February 3, 2024.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2020, there were 3,416,509 people that identified as Non-Hispanic Black or African American alone in Georgia and they represented 31.84% of the total population of Georgia in 2020. Fulton County had the highest number of Non-Hispanic Black or African American alone population (465,928), followed by DeKalb County (408,557), and Gwinnett County (272,151). On the other hand, Towns County had the lowest number of Non-Hispanic Black or African American alone (125), followed by Dade County (189), and Rabun County (197).

When it comes to the percentage of each county's population that identified as Non-Hispanic Black or African American alone, Clayton County had the highest percentage (70.83%), followed by Dougherty County (70.58%), and Hancock County (69.86%).

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

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Georgia Non-Hispanic Black or African American alone Population By County in 2020
Georgia Non-Hispanic Black or African American alone Population By County in 2020
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County Non-Hispanic Black or African American alone Population % of County Population
Appling 3434 18.7
Atkinson 1287 15.49
Bacon 1757 15.82
Baker 1189 41.71
Baldwin 18383 41.98
Banks 476 2.63
Barrow 10968 13.06
Bartow 11874 10.86
Ben Hill 6287 36.62
Berrien 1913 10.54
Bibb 87830 55.93
Bleckley 3276 26.16
Brantley 629 3.49
Brooks 5545 34.09
Bryan 6622 14.7
Bulloch 23159 28.98
Burke 11349 46.07
Butts 7125 27.89
Calhoun 3354 60.18
Camden 9978 18.17
Candler 2797 25.38
Carroll 22820 19.1
Catoosa 1936 2.85
Charlton 3661 29.21
Chatham 119286 40.43
Chattahoochee 1674 17.66
Chattooga 2393 9.6
Cherokee 19211 7.16
Clarke 35328 27.48
Clay 1693 59.82
Clayton 210793 70.83
Clinch 1796 26.71
Cobb 212058 27.67
Coffee 12169 28.27
Colquitt 10666 23.24
Columbia 29007 18.49
Cook 4732 27.46
Coweta 26623 18.15
Crawford 2504 20.69
Crisp 8890 44.34
Dade 189 1.16
Dawson 302 1.12
Decatur 12319 42.01
DeKalb 408557 53.45
Dodge 5839 29.38
Dooly 5449 48.8
Dougherty 60100 70.58
Douglas 71286 49.32
Early 5572 51.6
Echols 223 6
Effingham 9147 14.04
Elbert 5535 28.14
Emanuel 7878 34.42
Evans 3217 29.82
Fannin 197 0.78
Fayette 30122 25.21
Floyd 14237 14.44
Forsyth 10702 4.23
Franklin 2138 9.11
Fulton 465928 43.57
Gilmer 208 0.66
Glascock 264 9.12
Glynn 21859 25.88
Gordon 2223 3.85
Grady 7370 28.11
Greene 6024 31.67
Gwinnett 272151 28.41
Habersham 1737 3.77
Hall 14796 7.26
Hancock 6083 69.86
Haralson 1319 4.39
Harris 5545 15.89
Hart 4816 18.61
Heard 1068 9.33
Henry 118202 48.87
Houston 53703 32.68
Irwin 2539 26.31
Jackson 5475 7.14
Jasper 2695 18.38
Jeff Davis 2155 14.56
Jefferson 8116 51.77
Jenkins 3552 40.99
Johnson 3138 34.16
Jones 7180 25.28
Lamar 5298 28.56
Lanier 2111 21.27
Laurens 18368 37.07
Lee 7690 23.15
Liberty 27885 42.69
Lincoln 2159 28.04
Long 4314 26.52
Lowndes 43734 36.93
Lumpkin 528 1.57
McDuffie 8781 40.65
McIntosh 3601 32.78
Macon 7178 59.71
Madison 2819 9.31
Marion 2211 29.36
Meriwether 7785 37.78
Miller 1689 28.21
Mitchell 10152 46.85
Monroe 6281 22.39
Montgomery 2122 24.75
Morgan 4235 20.97
Murray 363 0.91
Muscogee 96874 46.8
Newton 53648 47.54
Oconee 2005 4.77
Oglethorpe 2432 16.36
Paulding 37397 22.05
Peach 12272 43.77
Pickens 387 1.16
Pierce 1636 8.29
Pike 1637 8.65
Polk 5288 12.32
Pulaski 3139 31.79
Putnam 5684 25.65
Quitman 1053 47.26
Rabun 197 1.17
Randolph 3821 60
Richmond 117895 57.09
Rockdale 54698 58.41
Schley 886 19.54
Screven 5578 39.62
Seminole 2991 32.76
Spalding 23694 35.13
Stephens 2737 10.21
Stewart 1996 37.63
Sumter 15450 52.34
Talbot 3089 53.95
Taliaferro 815 52.18
Tattnall 6855 28.19
Taylor 2845 36.39
Telfair 4214 33.81
Terrell 5388 58.96
Thomas 16482 36
Tift 12477 30.16
Toombs 7090 26.18
Towns 125 1
Treutlen 1954 30.55
Troup 25090 36.19
Turner 3425 38.13
Twiggs 3146 39.27
Union 239 0.96
Upson 7745 27.92
Walker 2864 4.23
Walton 18303 18.84
Ware 10769 29.73
Warren 3005 57.7
Washington 10600 53.14
Wayne 5848 19.4
Webster 972 41.33
Wheeler 2774 37.25
White 541 1.93
Whitfield 3684 3.58
Wilcox 2919 33.2
Wilkes 3803 39.8
Wilkinson 3326 37.69
Worth 5796 27.95