List of African-American neighborhoods
This is a list of African-American neighborhoods, containing cities, districts, and neighborhoods in the US that are predominantly African American, or are strongly associated with African-American culture, either currently or historically. Included are areas with high concentrations of blacks or African Americans, not counting Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Latinos, and Sub-Saharan African immigrants.
The largest African-American community is Detroit in Michigan[1] About 80% of the city population is African-American. A quarter of Metro Detroit (Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties) are African-American.
Neighborhoods
Black Belt of Alabama – 18 counties in Alabama, a total of 52% African-American population.[2] ===Alaska=== Anchorage Fairbanks Arizona
Helena and West Helena Little Rock CaliforniaAllensworth in Tulare County (historical) West Anaheim – formerly Manchester Avenue. Now along Magnolia Street.
Blacks Beach, Santa Monica (historic). Bruce Beach, Manhattan Beach (historic). Woodland Park, Chula Vista[6] East Palo Alto – one of Silicon Valley's largest black percentage cities (17% from 2010)
Folsom (historic Negro Bar).
Hayward – large black population in eastern San Francisco Bay Area. Lake Elsinore – Canyon Lake, Lake Elsinore. Riverside County – goes back to the 1880s when the city incorporated.
Los Angeles County
Pasadena (esp southwest side and South Pasadena)[13]
Nearby cities:
San Bernardino area –
Nearby cities:
San Diego
San Diego area- San Francisco
Bristol Street, McFadden Avenue, Raitt Street and Santa Ana Boulevard in Santa Ana[15]
Suisun City (20%) – Solano County.
Val Verde resort (historic). Mono Lake and nearby Bishop, Mammoth Lakes and Round Valley developed large Black percentages near the NV state line. Blythe, Big River, Havasu and Needles near the AZ state line. And towards Oregon (Siskiyou county) and the Mexican border (Imperial valley) ColoradoColorado Springs
Connecticut
District of Columbia(Washington, D.C.) 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.
===Florida=== East Dunbar, Fort Myers Miami and Miami-Dade County
Kendall Green, Pompano Beach, Broward County
Fort Mose Historic State Park, St. Augustine Miramar, FL Sarasota Fruitville Siesta Key Sea Islands (northern coast), home to the Gullah and Geechee peoples (African creoles).
Carver Ranches, West Park GeorgiaAtlanta - majority African-American.
Bellevue, Macon Sea Islands (southern coast), home to the Gullah and Geechee peoples (African creoles).
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Washington Township, Randolph County (outside Lynn – 1% while it's higher outside Lynn) IowaDes Moines Quad Cities area KansasKentucky
Paducah – While the city itself is about 25% African American, the city school district's high school is about 50% African American. LouisianaAcadiana region in Louisiana has several historically African-American majority towns. Baton Rouge Black Belt of Louisiana[22] - Bobtown, Mossville, St. Maurice and Washington. Mississippi Delta region. MaineMaryland
Baltimore County
Charles County
Massachusetts
Oak Bluffs- (sizable affluent Black-African American community, esp. tourism and seasonal residences)
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MichiganBenton Harbor – site of 2003 riots Bloomfield area-
West Bloomfield Detroit
Muskegon Heights Warren – est. 15–20%. Minnesota
MississippiBlack Belt of Mississippi – Large African-American majority region.[99] Clarksdale - 68% black Davis Bend, Mississippi/Louisiana. Falcon – 98% black. Leland - 2/3 of the town is black. Mississippi Delta region. Mound Bayou – 98% black. Missouri
NebraskaOmaha - most live in Northeast Omaha. ===Nevada===
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Poughkeepsie (site of 1927 race riot)
White Plains
North CarolinaEastland, Charlotte Emorywoods Estate, Durham, North Carolina Greensboro – 40.6% black, historic black city in the South since slavery, colonial times, Civil rights and the Civil war.[104] Crestdale Matthews Formerly Tank Town
OhioCincinnati
Youngstown OklahomaOklahoma 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.[131] "All-Black" settlements that were part of the Land Run of 1889.[132]
Bristow – 10% Black Oklahoma City
Red Bird[131] Tahlequah East side Tulsa – 15% black city
Turley – 20–25% Black OregonPennsylvania
Rhode Island
South CarolinaSouth Carolina is part of the Black Belt geological formation Acabee Columbia North Charleston Red Top Rock Hill (38.3%) Sea Islands (South Carolina coast, home to the Gullah and Geechee peoples (African creoles). Sumter (47.03%) ===Tennessee===
Corpus Christi, Texas, Nueces County
East Texas has some Black majority towns.
Moore Station (98.91%) Navasota - 30-40% black.
The Woodlands–Pearland-Tomball
U.S. Virgin IslandsMajority of territory residents are of black/Afro-Caribbean descent. UtahMost of state's blacks concentrated in Hill Air Force Base near Ogden. Historically, the diverse SugarHouse district of Salt Lake City. Vermont
VirginiaAlexandria – Sizable black population in the area. Eastern counties of Virginia along Chesapeake Bay (Middle Peninsula). It encompasses six Virginia counties:
WashingtonFederal Way Parkland
Tukwila – est.15–20%. West VirginiaWisconsin
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See also
- List of U.S. cities with large African American populations
- List of U.S. communities with African American majority populations
- List of U.S. metropolitan areas with large African-American populations
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