While the map shows large swaths of “white counties”-where no racial minority is highly represented-many of these are small, less urban, and sparsely populated areas where the white population is stagnating. And the much smaller American Indian or Alaska Native population is highly represented, frequently with other minority groups, in Oklahoma, Alaska, portions of the Mountain West, and the Upper Great Plains. These concentrations also appear in many northern urban areas, and together with other minorities in large parts of the West. The highest concentration of black Americans remains in the South, which, as a region, houses 58% of the nation’s black population. Asian residents, often with other minority groups, are highly represented in California, Washington, Texas, portions of the Southeast, large metropolitan areas, and small towns in all parts of the country. county are available interactively by clicking areas on the map).īy this definition, Hispanic residents are highly represented in a swath of counties from California to Texas as well as parts of the Mountain West, the Southeast, urbanized parts of the North and many smaller places in the nation’s interior. 3 Examples of the latter are Queens County, N.Y., Harris County, Texas, Gwinnett County, Ga., and Solano County, Calif., where each of the three biggest minority groups are a larger portion of the local population than they are nationally. 2 Also identified are counties where two or more minorities are highly represented. Map 1 depicts counties where these groups-as well as American Indian or Alaska Natives-are highly represented, comprising a higher share of a county’s total population than for the nation as a whole.

Us population density map 2018