US Counties With the Highest Share Black, Not Hispanic
2,390 US counties ranked by share black, not hispanic, from highest to lowest. First are Claiborne County, MS (86.1%), Holmes County, MS (82.4%) and Greene County, AL (81.5%). The middle one of the 2,390 has 4.13%.
What this measures
The percentage of residents who are Black or African American alone and not Hispanic. The middle county is under 2%, and this group is one of the most concentrated in the data. A handful of counties in the Mississippi Delta and the Black Belt are above 80%. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 42.5% |
| 2 | Mississippi | 36.9% |
| 3 | Georgia | 31% |
| 4 | Louisiana | 30.8% |
| 5 | Maryland | 29.2% |
| 6 | Alabama | 25.9% |
| 7 | South Carolina | 25.1% |
| 8 | Delaware | 21.4% |
| 9 | North Carolina | 20.3% |
| 10 | Virginia | 18.4% |
| 11 | Tennessee | 15.7% |
| 12 | Arkansas | 14.8% |
| 13 | Florida | 14.8% |
| 14 | New York | 13.6% |
| 15 | Illinois | 13.6% |
| 16 | Michigan | 13.2% |
| 17 | New Jersey | 12.3% |
| 18 | Ohio | 12.1% |
| 19 | Texas | 11.9% |
| 20 | Missouri | 11% |
| 21 | Pennsylvania | 10.3% |
| 22 | Connecticut | 9.88% |
| 23 | Indiana | 9.13% |
| 24 | Nevada | 9.05% |
| 25 | Kentucky | 7.77% |
| 26 | Oklahoma | 6.88% |
| 27 | Minnesota | 6.73% |
| 28 | Massachusetts | 6.51% |
| 29 | Wisconsin | 6.01% |
| 30 | California | 5.29% |
| 31 | Kansas | 5.27% |
| 32 | Rhode Island | 5.04% |
| 33 | Nebraska | 4.62% |
| 34 | Arizona | 4.39% |
| 35 | Washington | 3.82% |
| 36 | Colorado | 3.8% |
| 37 | Iowa | 3.76% |
| 38 | West Virginia | 3.21% |
| 39 | North Dakota | 3.17% |
| 40 | Alaska | 2.97% |
| 41 | South Dakota | 2.16% |
| 42 | Oregon | 1.84% |
| 43 | New Mexico | 1.81% |
| 44 | Hawaii | 1.8% |
| 45 | Maine | 1.63% |
| 46 | New Hampshire | 1.38% |
| 47 | Vermont | 1.16% |
| 48 | Utah | 1.04% |
| 49 | Wyoming | 0.815% |
| 50 | Idaho | 0.686% |
| 51 | Montana | 0.474% |
| 52 | Puerto Rico | 0.12% |
More on share black, not hispanic
- US Counties With the Lowest Share Black, Not Hispanic
- Share Black, not Hispanic by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.