List of U.S. cities with large Black populations

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Proportion of Black Americans in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census Black Americans by county.png
Proportion of Black Americans in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census

This list of U.S. cities by black population covers all incorporated cities and Census-designated places with a population over 100,000 and a proportion of black residents over 30% in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each city that is black or African American.

Contents

The data source for the list is the 2020 United States Census. [1]

At the time of the 2020 Census, there were 47.5 million Americans who were black (either alone or in combination), making up 14.2% of the U.S. population. State by state, the highest number of black Americans could be found in Texas (3.96 million), Florida (3.70 million), Georgia (3.54 million), New York (3.53 million), and California (2.83 million). Meanwhile, the highest proportions of African Americans were in the District of Columbia (44.17%), Mississippi (37.94%), Louisiana (33.13%), Georgia (33.03%), and Maryland (32.01%).

Throughout the country, there are 342 cities with a population over 100,000. 19 of them had black (alone or in combination) majorities, and in 46 more cities, between 30% and 50% of the population identified as black. Out of the 19 majority-black cities, four were in Georgia and Louisiana and Alabama had three each.

In 2020, the largest cities which had a black majority were Detroit, Michigan (population 639K), Memphis, Tennessee (population 633K), Baltimore, Maryland (population 586K), New Orleans, Louisiana (population 384K), and Cleveland, Ohio (population 373K), and the city with the largest black population was Chicago.

List

The list below displays each city (or city-equivalent) in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico with a population over 100,000 and a Black proportion over 30% as of the 2020 Census. It includes the city's total population, the number of Black people in the city, and the percentage of people in the city who are Black as of the 2020 Census. The table is initially sorted by the Black proportion of each city but is sortable by any of its columns, as can be found by clicking the table headers.

Cities where people who are Black alone are not at least 30% of the population, while people who are either Black alone, or, in combination with another race, do form at least 30% of the population, are italicized. [nb 1]

Note that New York City has the largest population of black residents among American cities. As of the 2020 US Census, New York City had 8.8 million residents, of which 22.1% where black, equating to a total of 1,943,645 who identified as black or African American. This figure is more than triple the next largest city population, which is the black population in the city of Chicago.

CityStateBlack %Black alone %PopulationBlack
population
Black alone
population
South Fulton Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg  Georgia 93.26%90.53%107,436100,19097,259
Jackson Flag of Mississippi.svg  Mississippi 80.45%78.86%153,701123,656121,215
Detroit Flag of Michigan.svg  Michigan 80.38%77.69%639,111513,697496,534
Birmingham Flag of Alabama.svg  Alabama 69.82%68.40%200,733140,156137,296
Miami Gardens Flag of Florida.svg  Florida 66.97%63.50%111,64074,76170,886
Memphis Flag of Tennessee.svg  Tennessee 63.34%61.57%633,104401,033389,779
Montgomery Flag of Alabama.svg  Alabama 61.91%60.29%200,603124,187120,950
Baltimore Flag of Maryland.svg  Maryland 60.42%57.79%585,708353,890338,478
Augusta Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg  Georgia 58.61%55.81%202,081118,441112,773
Shreveport Flag of Louisiana.svg  Louisiana 57.82%56.02%187,593108,474105,088
New Orleans Flag of Louisiana.svg  Louisiana 57.02%54.24%383,997218,969208,273
Macon Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg  Georgia 56.48%54.58%157,34688,86585,885
Baton Rouge Flag of Louisiana.svg  Louisiana 55.43%53.84%227,470126,097122,461
Hampton Flag of Virginia.svg  Virginia 53.65%49.52%137,14873,57967,915
Newark Flag of New Jersey.svg  New Jersey 53.22%49.45%311,549165,802154,048
Mobile Flag of Alabama.svg  Alabama 53.04%51.35%187,04199,19896,039
Cleveland Flag of Ohio.svg  Ohio 51.59%48.37%372,624192,239180,224
Brockton Flag of Massachusetts.svg  Massachusetts 51.42%34.98%105,64354,32036,951
Savannah Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg  Georgia 51.41%49.14%147,78075,97972,618
Atlanta Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg  Georgia 49.51%47.22%498,715246,906235,513
Columbus Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg  Georgia 49.40%46.47%206,922102,21296,163
Beaumont Flag of Texas.svg  Texas 49.15%47.32%115,28256,66654,549
Fayetteville Flag of North Carolina.svg  North Carolina 47.58%42.99%208,50199,20889,645
Miramar Flag of Florida.svg  Florida 46.43%42.39%134,72162,55357,109
Newport News Flag of Virginia.svg  Virginia 46.35%42.25%186,24786,33078,687
St. Louis Flag of Missouri.svg  Missouri 45.45%43.04%301,578137,059129,814
Greensboro Flag of North Carolina.svg  North Carolina 44.83%41.99%299,035134,071125,574
Rochester Flag of New York.svg  New York 44.55%40.10%211,32894,14284,752
Washington Flag of Washington, D.C.svg  District of Columbia 44.17%41.45%689,545304,539285,810
Dayton Flag of Ohio.svg  Ohio 43.90%40.67%137,64460,43255,981
Norfolk Flag of Virginia.svg  Virginia 43.55%40.16%238,005103,65795,594
Killeen Flag of Texas.svg  Texas 43.47%37.27%153,09566,55657,055
Cincinnati Flag of Ohio.svg  Ohio 43.35%40.55%309,317134,092125,443
North Charleston Flag of South Carolina.svg  South Carolina 42.99%40.64%114,85249,37146,673
Richmond Flag of Virginia.svg  Virginia 42.91%40.45%226,61097,24091,653
Little Rock Flag of Arkansas.svg  Arkansas 42.35%40.64%202,59185,79082,340
Hartford Flag of Connecticut.svg  Connecticut 42.32%38.19%121,05451,23646,231
Inglewood Flag of California.svg  California 42.24%38.70%107,76245,52341,708
Philadelphia Flag of Pennsylvania.svg  Pennsylvania 42.01%39.31%1,603,797673,785630,462
Milwaukee Flag of Wisconsin.svg  Wisconsin 41.50%38.59%577,222239,542222,746
Columbia Flag of South Carolina.svg  South Carolina 40.36%38.50%136,63255,14052,598
Buffalo Flag of New York.svg  New York 40.16%36.87%278,349111,796102,636
Bridgeport Flag of Connecticut.svg  Connecticut 38.59%35.07%148,65457,37252,138
Durham Flag of North Carolina.svg  North Carolina 38.59%36.24%283,506109,411102,742
Tallahassee Flag of Florida.svg  Florida 37.22%35.02%196,16973,00768,691
New Haven Flag of Connecticut.svg  Connecticut 35.82%32.20%134,02348,00143,160
Charlotte Flag of North Carolina.svg  North Carolina 35.39%33.05%874,579309,487289,062
Syracuse Flag of New York.svg  New York 35.37%30.67%148,62052,57345,588
Winston-Salem Flag of North Carolina.svg  North Carolina 34.98%32.52%249,54587,28681,148
Akron Flag of Ohio.svg  Ohio 34.94%31.41%190,46966,55559,821
High Point Flag of North Carolina.svg  North Carolina 34.35%32.10%114,05939,18336,610
West Palm Beach Flag of Florida.svg  Florida 34.13%31.65%117,41540,07537,160
Jacksonville Flag of Florida.svg  Florida 33.20%30.57%949,611315,281290,279
Toledo Flag of Ohio.svg  Ohio 32.67%28.76%270,87188,50377,897
Lafayette Flag of Louisiana.svg  Louisiana 32.42%30.70%121,37439,35437,259
Columbus Flag of Ohio.svg  Ohio 31.77%28.65%905,748287,735259,483
Chesapeake Flag of Virginia.svg  Virginia 31.68%28.97%249,42279,01372,268
Huntsville Flag of Alabama.svg  Alabama 31.45%29.34%215,00667,62663,085
Columbia Flag of Maryland.svg  Maryland 31.25%27.65%104,68132,71828,941
Peoria Flag of Illinois.svg  Illinois 31.13%27.86%113,15035,22831,527
Chattanooga Flag of Tennessee.svg  Tennessee 30.89%29.09%181,09955,95052,690
Chicago Flag of Illinois.svg  Illinois 30.79%29.17%2,746,388845,638801,195
Roanoke Flag of Virginia.svg  Virginia 30.76%27.47%100,01130,76427,470
Pompano Flag of Florida.svg  Florida 30.71%28.55%112,04634,41031,994
Indianapolis Flag of Indiana.svg  Indiana 30.55%27.95%887,642271,214248,067

See also

Notes

  1. The United States Census Bureau uses the term race alone for people who answered the question on race by indicating only one race. The census uses the term race in combination for people who reported belonging to more than one race group. [2]

References

  1. "2020 Census". 2020 Census. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  2. "Glossary: Race alone". United States Census Bureau . United States Government.