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The following is a list of U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia ranked by the proportion of African Americans of full or partial descent, including those of Hispanic origin, in the population.
2020 Black Population by State | Total and Percent | SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau 2020 official count... African American alone and in c...
The state with the highest relative population of Black Americans in the United States is the District of Columbia with 48%, followed by Mississippi with 39%, Georgia and Louisiana with 34% each, and Maryland with 33%.
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).
Currently, the U.S Census estimates that the Black or African American population comprises roughly 14.6% of the national total. This translates to approximately 47.8 million people, with the Black-only population accounting for 13.4%. Texas leads all other states with a Black population of around 3.6 million.
The three states (Texas, Georgia and Florida) with the nation’s largest African American populations had nearly equal shares of that population (Table 2). Nearly 20% of the Sub-Saharan African population lived in Texas and New York.
11 paź 2023 · 2020 Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-17 1) Summary File. The Diversity Index tells us the chance that two people chosen at random will be from different racial and ethnic groups.
