States with the highest number of African Americans
All figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau Report issued in June 2004
The Census Bureau defines ancestry as a person's ethnic origin, racial heritage, descent, or "roots," which may reflect their place of birth, place of birth of parents or ancestors, and ethnic identities that have evolved within the United States.
"African Americans" are defined as people who marked their ethnic origin as "African American" on the Census survey in 1990 and/or 2000.
* Highest number as percentage of region population not total population.
| State/Region (2000 population) | % of Region's Population | Total Population |
| District of Columbia (572,059) | 43.4 | 248,274 |
| Mississippi (2,844,658) | 28.3 | 805,038 |
| Louisiana (4,468,976) | 25.5 | 1,139,589 |
| South Carolina (4,012,012) | 22.8 | 914,739 |
| Georgia (8,186,453) | 21.6 | 1,768,274 |
| Maryland (5,296,486) | 20.5 | 1,085,780 |
| Alabama (4,447,100) | 19.9 | 884,973 |
| North Carolina (8,049,313) | 16.6 | 1,336,186 |
| Virginia (7,078,515) | 14.9 | 1,054,699 |
| South * (100,236,820) | 14 | 14,033,155 |
| Delaware (783,600) | 14 | 109,704 |
| Tennessee (5,689,283) | 13 | 739,607 |
| Arkansas (2,673,400) | 11.9 | 318,135 |
| Illinois (12,419,293) | 11.5 | 1,428,219 |
| Michigan (9,938,444) | 11 | 1,093,229 |
| Ohio (11,353,140) | 9.1 | 1,033,136 |
| United States * (281,421,906) | 8.8 | 24,765,128 |
| New Jersey (8,414,350) | 8.8 | 740,463 |
| Missouri (5,595,211) | 8.8 | 492,379 |
| Texas (20,851,820) | 8.7 | 1,814,108 |
| Florida (15,982,378) | 8.6 | 1,374,485 |
| Midwest * (64,392,776) | 7.8 | 5,022,637 |
| New York (18,976,457) | 7.7 | 1,461,187 |
| Pennsylvania (12,281,054) | 7.4 | 908,798 |
| Northeast * (53,594,378) | 6.5 | 3,483,635 |
| Indiana (6,080,485) | 6.5 | 395,232 |
| Kentucky (4,041,769) | 5.7 | 230,381 |
| California (33,871,648) | 5.1 | 1,727,454 |
- Rounds to 0.0.
Some ancestries are general may encompass several ancestries not listed separately (i.e., African American, White).
NS Not statistically different from zero at the 90-percent confidence level.
Notes: Because of sampling error, the estimates in this table may not be significantly different from one another or from other ancestries not listed in this table.
People who reported two ancestries were included once in each category. The estimates in this table differ slightly in some cases from
the estimates in other data products due to the collapsing schemes used. For example, here German does not include Bavarian. Some
groups correspond to groups identified separately in the race and Hispanic-origin questions. The race item provides the primary source of
data for White, Black, American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian groups, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander groups. The Hispanic-origin question
is the primary identifier for Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Hispanic groups.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 Census and Census 2000 special tabulations.
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