Ranking of Arkansas Counties By Percentage of Population that are Black or African American Alone in 2020

Updated on August 12, 2024.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2020, among all Arkansas counties, Phillips County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their race as Black or African American Alone (63.18%), followed by Jefferson County (57.78%), and Crittenden County (55.11%).

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

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

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Ranking of Arkansas Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Black or African American Alone in 2020
Phillips
Jefferson
Crittenden
Chicot
St. Francis
Lee
Desha
Dallas
Monroe
Ouachita
Ranking of Arkansas Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Black or African American Alone in 2020
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Phillips County 63.18
2 Jefferson County 57.78
3 Crittenden County 55.11
4 Chicot County 54.66
5 St. Francis County 54.45
6 Lee County 54.19
7 Desha County 48.91
8 Dallas County 41.76
9 Monroe County 40.6
10 Ouachita County 40.4
11 Pulaski County 37.81
12 Mississippi County 36.21
13 Lafayette County 35.95
14 Columbia County 35.77
15 Union County 33.08
16 Nevada County 30.71
17 Hempstead County 30.38
18 Lincoln County 30.24
19 Bradley County 28.31
20 Drew County 27.89
21 Woodruff County 26.13
22 Miller County 25.84
23 Arkansas County 25.48
24 Ashley County 24.48
25 Clark County 24.22
26 Cross County 23.64
27 Howard County 21.7
28 Calhoun County 21.52
29 Little River County 19.86
30 Jackson County 17.61
31 Craighead County 17.25
32 Faulkner County 12.24
33 Conway County 11.66
34 Cleveland County 11.55
35 Hot Spring County 11.47
36 Prairie County 11
37 Garland County 8.76
38 Saline County 8.64
39 Poinsett County 8.33
40 Sebastian County 7.08
41 Lonoke County 6.52
42 White County 4.56
43 Sevier County 4.25
44 Washington County 3.85
45 Pike County 3.75
46 Pope County 3.36
47 Grant County 2.88
48 Independence County 2.54
49 Yell County 2.46
50 Izard County 2.36
50 Johnson County 2.36
51 Perry County 2.2
52 Benton County 2.15
53 Greene County 2.01
54 Crawford County 1.79
55 Logan County 1.43
56 Randolph County 1.32
57 Lawrence County 1.25
58 Sharp County 1.06
59 Carroll County 0.88
59 Montgomery County 0.88
59 Scott County 0.88
60 Clay County 0.86
61 Franklin County 0.85
62 Fulton County 0.82
63 Madison County 0.8
64 Van Buren County 0.77
65 Polk County 0.71
66 Marion County 0.66
67 Newton County 0.63
68 Searcy County 0.6
69 Stone County 0.57
70 Cleburne County 0.55
71 Baxter County 0.54
72 Boone County 0.53