Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Percentage of Population that are Asian Alone in 2020

Updated on August 12, 2024.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2020, among all North Carolina counties, Wake County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their race as Asian Alone (8.06%), followed by Orange County (7.98%), and Mecklenburg County (6.5%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all North Carolina counties.

You can see similar ranking information for other racial and ethnicity groups in the United States.

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Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Asian Alone in 2020
Wake
Orange
Mecklenburg
Durham
Guilford
Cabarrus
Catawba
Union
Burke
Craven
Ranking of North Carolina Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Asian Alone in 2020
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Wake County 8.06
2 Orange County 7.98
3 Mecklenburg County 6.5
4 Durham County 5.53
5 Guilford County 5.4
6 Cabarrus County 5.24
7 Catawba County 4.82
8 Union County 3.9
9 Burke County 3.73
10 Craven County 3.06
11 Iredell County 2.81
12 Cumberland County 2.73
13 Forsyth County 2.66
14 Chatham County 2.31
15 Onslow County 2.24
16 Pitt County 2.06
17 Stanly County 1.98
18 Camden County 1.97
19 Tyrrell County 1.91
20 Alamance County 1.88
21 Davidson County 1.77
22 Montgomery County 1.72
23 Gaston County 1.69
24 Moore County 1.67
25 Anson County 1.66
26 Randolph County 1.61
27 Lee County 1.52
28 New Hanover County 1.51
29 Hoke County 1.49
30 Buncombe County 1.47
31 Pasquotank County 1.41
32 Henderson County 1.35
33 Harnett County 1.32
34 Wayne County 1.3
35 Wilson County 1.29
36 Watauga County 1.25
37 Carteret County 1.23
38 Jackson County 1.22
39 McDowell County 1.17
40 Rowan County 1.14
41 Alexander County 1.12
42 Cleveland County 1.11
43 Macon County 1.09
44 Nash County 1.08
45 Hertford County 1.05
46 Richmond County 1.02
47 Johnston County 1
48 Currituck County 0.95
48 Polk County 0.95
49 Scotland County 0.93
50 Davie County 0.92
51 Dare County 0.9
52 Lincoln County 0.88
53 Vance County 0.87
54 Halifax County 0.86
55 Hyde County 0.84
56 Alleghany County 0.83
56 Duplin County 0.83
56 Franklin County 0.83
57 Granville County 0.81
58 Chowan County 0.8
59 Caldwell County 0.79
59 Surry County 0.79
60 Brunswick County 0.78
61 Swain County 0.77
62 Bertie County 0.75
63 Cherokee County 0.74
63 Lenoir County 0.74
64 Haywood County 0.71
64 Pender County 0.71
64 Rockingham County 0.71
65 Sampson County 0.68
66 Pamlico County 0.67
66 Rutherford County 0.67
67 Avery County 0.66
67 Robeson County 0.66
68 Graham County 0.65
68 Jones County 0.65
68 Transylvania County 0.65
69 Mitchell County 0.64
70 Caswell County 0.63
71 Greene County 0.62
72 Beaufort County 0.59
72 Martin County 0.59
73 Perquimans County 0.58
73 Wilkes County 0.58
74 Columbus County 0.56
75 Madison County 0.54
75 Yadkin County 0.54
76 Ashe County 0.49
77 Person County 0.48
78 Bladen County 0.47
79 Clay County 0.42
79 Stokes County 0.42
79 Washington County 0.42
80 Gates County 0.41
81 Warren County 0.39
82 Edgecombe County 0.37
83 Northampton County 0.36
84 Yancey County 0.31