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The following is a list of United States counties in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is African American or Black, according to data from the 2000 Census.[1] The list below is organized by state and the percentage of each county's population that is African American is listed in parentheses next to the county's name.
County-equivalents, such as independent cities (e.g., St. Louis, Missouri and any municipality in Virginia incorporated as a city), are included in this list.
Alabama
- Bullock County (69.5%)
- Dallas County (69.4%)
- Greene County (80.4%)
- Hale County (58.3%)
- Lowndes County (72.8%)
- Macon County (81.5%)
- Marengo County (51.7%)
- Perry County (68.0%)
- Sumter County (73.6%)
- Wilcox County (72.2%)
Arkansas
- Chicot County (53.96%)
- Lee County (57.24%)
- Phillips County (59.04%)
- St. Francis County (52%)
- Crittenden County (51%)
Florida
- Gadsden County (57.1%)
Georgia
- Baker County (50.4%)
- Burke County (51.0%)
- Calhoun County (60.6%)
- Clay County (60.5%)
- Clayton County (51.6%)
- DeKalb County (54.2%)
- Dougherty County (60.1%)
- Hancock County (77.8%)
- Jefferson County (56.3%)
- Macon County (59.5%)
- Randolph County (59.5%)
- Stewart County (61.5%)
- Talbot County (61.6%)
- Taliaferro County (60.3%)
- Terrell County (60.7%)
- Warren County (59.5%)
- Washington County (53.2%)
Louisiana
- East Carroll Parish (67.3%)
- Madison Parish (60.3%)
- Orleans Parish (67.3%)
- St. Helena Parish (52.4%)
- Tensas Parish (55.4%)
- West Feliciana Parish (50.5%)
Maryland
- Baltimore City (64.3%)
- Prince George's County (62.7%)
Mississippi
- Adams County (52.8%)
- Bolivar County (65.1%)
- Claiborne County (84.1%)
- Clay County (56.3%)
- Coahoma County (69.2%)
- Copiah County (51.0%)
- Hinds County (61.1%)
- Holmes County (78.7%)
- Humphreys County (71.5%)
- Issaquena County (62.8%)
- Jasper County (52.9%)
- Jefferson County (86.5%)
- Jefferson Davis County (57.4%)
- Kemper County (58.1%)
- Leflore County (67.7%)
- Marshall County (50.4%)
- Noxubee County (69.3%)
- Quitman County (68.6%)
- Sharkey County (69.3%)
- Sunflower County (69.9%)
- Tallahatchie County (59.4%)
- Tunica County (70.2%)
- Washington County (64.6%)
- Wilkinson County (68.2%)
- Yazoo County (54.0%)
Missouri
- Saint Louis City (51.2%)
North Carolina
- Anson County (51.6%)
- Bertie County (62.3%)
- Edgecombe County (57.5%)
- Halifax County (52.6%)
- Hertford County (59.6%)
- Northampton County (59.4%)
- Warren County (54.5%)
South Carolina
- Allendale County (71.0%)
- Bamberg County (62.5%)
- Clarendon County (53.1%)
- Fairfield County (59.1%)
- Hampton County (55.7%)
- Jasper County (52.7%)
- Lee County (63.6%)
- McCormick County (53.9%)
- Marion County (53.4%)
- Marlboro County (50.7%)
- Orangeburg County (60.9%)
- Williamsburg County (66.3%)
Tennessee
- Haywood County (50%)
- Shelby County (52%)
Virginia
- Brunswick County (56.9%)
- Charles City County (54.9%)
- Emporia City (56.2%)
- Franklin City (52.3%)
- Greensville County (59.8%)
- Petersburg City (79.0%)
- Portsmouth City (50.6%)
- Richmond City (57.2%)
- Surry County (51.6%)
- Sussex County (62.1%)
National Rankings
- Jefferson County, Mississippi (86.49%)
- Macon County, Alabama (84.64%)
- Claiborne County, Mississippi (84.11%)
- Greene County, Alabama (80.34%)
- Petersburg City, Virginia (78.97%)
- Holmes County, Mississippi (78.66%)
- Hancock County, Georgia (77.76%)
- Lowndes County, Alabama (73.37%)
- Sumter County, Alabama (73.17%)
- Bullock County, Alabama (73.11%)
- Wilcox County, Alabama (71.90%)
- Humphreys County, Mississippi (71.51%)
- Allendale County, South Carolina (71.00%)
- Tunica County, Mississippi (70.15%)
See also
- List of U.S. cities with African American majority populations
- Lists of U.S. cities with non-white majority populations
- List of U.S. cities with large African-American populations - over 30% African-American cities ranked by percentage
- List of U.S. counties with Hispanic majority populations
