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This list of majority-Black counties in the United States covers the counties and county-equivalents in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each county that is Black or African American. The data source for the list is the 2020 United States Census. [1]
The following is a list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with large African American populations. As a result of slavery, more than half of African Americans live in the South. [1] The data is sourced from the 2010 and 2020 United States Censuses.
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
The following is a list of United States cities, towns, and census designated places in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is non-Hispanic African American/Black alone as of the 2020 U.S. Census.
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
The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.
Oklahoma has a few surviving all-black or African-American majority towns as a result of the Land Rush of 1889, similar to the Exodusters after the Civil War (1860s) to nearby Kansas. One example is Freedom not to be confused with Freedom in the western half of the state. [85] "All-Black" settlements that were part of the Land Run of 1889. [86 ...
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used ... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.