Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic White in 2021

Updated on August 12, 2024.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2021, among all California counties, Nevada County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their ethnicity as Non-Hispanic White (83.69%), followed by Sierra County (83.06%), and Plumas County (82.5%).

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

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

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Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Non-Hispanic White in 2021
Nevada
Sierra
Plumas
Trinity
Tuolumne
Calaveras
Mariposa
Shasta
Modoc
Amador
Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Non-Hispanic White in 2021
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Nevada County 83.69
2 Sierra County 83.06
3 Plumas County 82.5
4 Trinity County 82.17
5 Tuolumne County 79.3
6 Calaveras County 78.75
7 Mariposa County 77.94
7 Shasta County 77.94
8 Modoc County 76.73
9 Amador County 76.22
10 El Dorado County 75.55
11 Siskiyou County 74.99
12 Humboldt County 71.88
13 Placer County 69.28
14 Marin County 68.54
15 Butte County 68.11
16 San Luis Obispo County 66.97
17 Lake County 66.88
18 Mono County 66.23
19 Tehama County 65.05
20 Alpine County 65.01
21 Mendocino County 63.29
22 Del Norte County 62.31
23 Lassen County 61.5
24 Sonoma County 60.42
25 Inyo County 60.4
26 Santa Cruz County 55.96
27 Yuba County 52.29
28 Napa County 50.37
29 Glenn County 49.1
30 Yolo County 44.23
31 San Diego County 44.11
32 Ventura County 43.77
33 Sutter County 43.55
34 Sacramento County 42.42
35 Santa Barbara County 42.25
36 Contra Costa County 40.48
37 Orange County 38.51
38 Stanislaus County 38.32
39 San Francisco County 38
40 San Mateo County 36.88
41 Solano County 35.08
42 Riverside County 32.81
43 Colusa County 32.19
44 Madera County 31.68
45 Kern County 31.59
46 San Benito County 30.67
47 Kings County 29.33
48 Alameda County 28.88
49 Santa Clara County 28.84
50 San Joaquin County 28.63
51 Monterey County 28.17
52 Fresno County 27.6
53 Tulare County 27.01
54 San Bernardino County 26.23
55 Los Angeles County 25.71
56 Merced County 24.8
57 Imperial County 9.52