List of U.S. cities with large African-American populations

This is a list of the United States cities over 100,000 people that have populations that are more than 30% African American.[note 1] Statistics include self-identifying people of African descent regardless of nationality at birth.

Cities with the highest percentage of Black or African American People

Cities with the highest percentage of African American people

The following data was sourced from the 2010 U.S. Census.

Rank	City	Percentage of African Americans	Total African Americans
1	Detroit, MI	82.7	670,226
2	Gary, IN	80.92	75,282 [1]
3	Jackson, MS	79.4	137,716
4	Chester, PA	77.8	26,429
5	Miami Gardens, FL	76.3	81,776
6	Orangeburg, SC	75.04	13,964
7	Birmingham, AL	73.4	155,791
8	Albany, GA	71.6	55,442
9	Baltimore, MD	63.7	395,781
10	Memphis, TN	62.6	607,309
11	New Orleans, LA	60.2	206,871
12	Baton Rouge, LA	58.5	126,250
13	Wilmington, DE	58	41,326
14	Flint, MI	56.6	57,939
15	Savannah, GA	55.4	75,507
16	Augusta, GA	54.7	107,182
17	Shreveport, LA	54.7	109,022
18	Montgomery, AL	54.5	116,524
19	Atlanta, GA	54.0	325,894
20	Cleveland, OH	53.3	211,672

Top 10 Cities of over 100,000 with the highest percentage of African-American people

Top Ten cities with 100,000 or more total population and the highest percentages of African-Americans, alone or with other races[2]

City	Total population	African Americans, alone or with other races		African Americans, alone		Mixed-race African-American
		Rank	Percentage of total population	Rank	Percentage of total population	Rank	Percentage of total population
Detroit, Michigan	713,777	1	84.3	1	82.7	242	1.6
Jackson, Mississippi	173,514	2	80.1	2	79.4	242	0.7
Miami Gardens, Florida	107,167	3	77.9	3	76.3	91	1.6
Birmingham, Alabama	212,237	4	74.0	4	73.4	257	0.6
Baltimore, Maryland	620,961	5	65.1	5	63.7	134	1.3
Memphis, Tennessee	646,889	6	64.1	6	63.3	225	0.8
New Orleans, Louisiana	343,831	7	61.2	6	60.2	184	1.0
Flint, Michigan	102,434	8	59.5	8	56.6	9	2.9
Montgomery, Alabama	205,764	9	57.4	8	56.6	231	0.8
Savannah, Georgia	136,286	10	56.7	10	55.4	139	1.3

Top 10 Cities with the largest number of African American people

Ten cities with 100,000 or more total population
and the highest number of African Americans[3]

City	Total population	African Americans, alone or mixed with other races		African Americans, alone		Mixed-race African Americans
		Rank	Number	Rank	Number	Rank	Number
New York, NY	8,375,133	1	2,228,145	1	2,088,510	1	139,635
Chicago, IL	2,701,598	2	913,009	2	887,608	3	25,401
Philadelphia, PA	1,526,006	3	686,870	3	661,839	4	25,031
Houston, TX	2,378,451	4	611,390	4	590,226	13	11,762
Detroit, MI	672,777	5	535,900	5	498,466	8	11,751
Memphis, TN	646,889	6	414,928	6	409,687	58	5,241
Baltimore, MD	601,961	7	403,998	7	395,781	29	8,217
Los Angeles, CA	3,992,621	8	402,872	8	365,118	2	37,330
Washington, DC	684,723	9	314,352	9	305,125	22	9,227
Charlotte, NC	857,425	10	313,204	10	298,993	23	9,094

See also

• African Americans in Atlanta
• African Americans in New York City
• History of African Americans in Baltimore
• History of African Americans in Chicago
• History of African Americans in Dallas-Ft. Worth
• History of African Americans in Detroit
• History of African Americans in Houston
• History of African Americans in San Antonio
• List of U.S. states by African-American population
• List of U.S. metropolitan areas with large African-American populations
• List of U.S. communities with African American majority populations
• List of African American neighborhoods

• Demographics of the United States
• List of United States cities by percentage of white population

Notes and references

Notes

1. The United States Census Bureau defines Archived 2014-03-27 at the Wayback Machine a "Black or African American" as "[a] person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as 'Black, African Am., or Negro'; or report entries such as African American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian."

References

1. http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/gary-in-population/
2. The Black Population: 2010 (PDF) (Report). U.S. Census Bureau. Table 7.
3. The Black Population: 2010 (PDF) (Report). U.S. Census Bureau. Table 6.