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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.
The Quad-Cities, with Davenport as the largest member, has for years been one of five cities that have been home to a majority of the state's black population. The others are Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Iowa City, and Coralville. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, these cities held 55.2% of Iowa's black population. [2]
However, some U.S. states had previously emancipated some or all of their black population. The table below shows the percentage of free blacks as a percentage of the total black population in various U.S. regions and U.S. states between 1790 and 1860 (the blank areas on the chart below mean that there is no data for those specific regions or ...
Black Hawk County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census , the population was 131,144, [ 1 ] making it Iowa's fifth-most populous county. The county seat is Waterloo .
Map of the United States with Iowa highlighted Iowa Cities and Counties. Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States. As of 2010, there are 943 incorporated cities in the U.S. state of Iowa. According to the 2020 United States Census, Iowa has 3,190,369 inhabitants and 55,857.13 square miles (144,669.3 km 2) of land.
By 1905, independent historian Rachelle Chase wrote in Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa, it was "a town of 5,000 where 55 percent of the population was black." The typical Iowa coal town ...
City Metropolitan Area Population 2020 United States Census [2] African-American Population Size, 100,000 or more (2020 United States Census) [3] African-American Population Size (2010 Census) [4] % Change (2010–2020) Percentage African-American (2020) 1 New York, New York (NY-NJ-PA) MSA 20,140,470 3,237,789 3,352,616 −3.42%: 16.1 2 Atlanta ...
Peaking at 75% black in the mid-1970s after five previous decades of the Great Migration increased the black population five-fold, DC is 46–49% black in 2018. DC remains the largest African-American percentage population of any state or territory in the mainland US.