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
About 80% of the city population is African-American.
A quarter of Metro Detroit are African-American.

Neighborhoods

[Alabama]

Black Belt of Alabama – 18 counties in Alabama, a total of 52% African-American population.
Hobson City
Mobile
Montgomery
Prichard
Skyline
White Hall

[Alaska]

[Arizona]

Randolph
Tucson: Dunbar Spring

[Arkansas]

and West Helena
Jonesboro
Little Rock
Pine Bluff
Stuttgart
West Memphis

[California]

in Tulare County
West Anaheim – formerly Manchester Avenue. Now along Magnolia Street.
Antelope Valley
Avenal
Bakersfield
Berkeley
Blacks Beach, Santa Monica.
Bruce Beach, Manhattan Beach.
California City
Chowchilla
Woodland Park, Chula Vista
Corcoran
East Palo Alto – one of Silicon Valley's largest black percentage cities
Emeryville
Fairfield
Folsom.
Fresno
Hayward – large black population in eastern San Francisco Bay Area.
Lake Elsinore – Yarborough neighborhood of Old Town. Riverside County – goes back to the 1880s when the city incorporated.
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Marin City
Oakland
Pasadena
Pinole
Richmond
Riverside –
Nearby cities:
Sacramento
San Bernardino area –
Nearby cities:
San Diego
San Diego area-
San Francisco
San Jose
Bristol Street, McFadden Avenue, Raitt Street and Santa Ana Boulevard in Santa Ana
Seaside
Stockton
Suisun City – Solano County.
Vallejo
Val Verde resort.
Yuba City
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 and the Mexican border

[Colorado]

Denver
Fountain

[Connecticut]

, Hartford
Middletown
New Haven
New London
Norwalk
Stamford
Waterbury

[District of Columbia]

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.
, Fort Myers
Fort Lauderdale
Gretna
Jacksonville
Miami and Miami-Dade County
Orange County
Newtown, Palatka
Pahokee
Kendall Green, Pompano Beach
Polk County
Prospect Bluff Historic Sites
Riviera Beach
Fort Mose Historic State Park, St. Augustine
Sanford
Sea Islands, home to the Gullah and Geechee peoples.
South Bay
Frenchtown, Tallahassee
Tampa
Carver Ranches, West Park

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- majority African-American.
Albany
Augusta
Bellevue, Macon
Cairo
Clayton County
Douglasville
Hancock County
Hinesville
Jefferson County
Lithonia
Savannah
Sea Islands, home to the Gullah and Geechee peoples.
Stewart County
Stone Mountain
Talbot County

[Idaho]

Suburbs
East St. Louis
Kankakee County
Pulaski County

[Indiana]

Indianapolis
Merrillville
Washington Township, Randolph County

[Iowa]

Quad Cities area
Saylorville
West Des Moines

[Kansas]

Dodge City
Kansas City, Kansas
Wichita
Louisville
Paducah – While the city itself is about 25% African American, the city school district's high school is about 50% African American.
Russellville
region in Louisiana has several historically African-American majority towns.
Bastrop
Baton Rouge
Black Belt of Louisiana - Bobtown, Mossville, St. Maurice and Washington.
Mississippi Delta region.
Natchitoches
New Orleans
Shreveport
Tallulah
Wallace

[Maine]

, Portland

[Maryland]

Baltimore
Baltimore County
Charles County
Prince George's County
Somerset County
Brockton
Everett
Lynn
Medford
New Bedford
Oak Bluffs-
Randolph
Springfield
Worcester
– site of 2003 riots
Beverly Hills
Birmingham
Bloomfield area-
Bloomfield Hills
West Bloomfield
Detroit
Flint
Hamtramck
Highland Park
Inkster
Jackson
Kalamazoo
Lansing
Midland
Muskegon Heights
Pontiac
Saginaw
Southfield
Warren – est. 15–20%.

[Minnesota]

Rochester
Saint Paul
– Large African-American majority region.
Byhalia
Clarksdale - 68% black
Davis Bend, Mississippi/Louisiana.
Falcon – 98% black.
Russ College
Jackson
University Park/Palisades
Leland - 2/3 of the town is black.
Mississippi Delta region.
Mound Bayou – 98% black.
Tougaloo
Yazoo City

[Missouri]

St. Louis
St. Louis County
- most live in Northeast Omaha.

[Nevada]

Buffalo
Mount Vernon
Nassau County
New York City
Orange County
Poughkeepsie
Rochester
Rockland County
Suffolk County
Syracuse
White Plains
Yonkers
Emorywoods Estate, Durham, North
Carolina
Elizabeth City
Goldsboro
Greensboro – 40.6% black, historic black city in the South since slavery, colonial times, Civil rights and the Civil war.
Henderson
James City
Kinston
Crestdale Matthews Formerly Tank Town
Oxford
Princeville
Raleigh
Rocky Mount
Roxboro
Tarboro
Williamston

[Ohio]

Cleveland
Columbus
Dayton
East Jackson-Waverly
Newark
Springfield
Toledo
Warren
Youngstown
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 to nearby Kansas. One example is Freedom not to be confused with Freedom in the western half of the state.
"All-Black" settlements that were part of the Land Run of 1889.
Bristow – 10% Black
Eufaula
Langston
Oklahoma City
Red Bird
Tahlequah East side
Tulsa – 15% black city
Turley – 20–25% Black

[Oregon]

Pittsburgh
South Carolina is part of the Black Belt geological formation
Acabee
Allendale
Bennettsville
Charleston
Columbia
Greenville
Lake City
Marion
North Charleston
Orangeburg
Red Top
Ridgeland
Rock Hill
Sea Islands.
Sumter

[Tennessee]

Nashville
Whiteville

[Texas]

Bastrop
Beaumont
Bedford
Bryan
Conroe
Corpus Christi, Texas, Nueces County
Dallas
Dallas County
East Texas has some Black majority towns.
Easton
Euless
Fort Worth
Galveston
Grand Prairie
Houston
Huntsville
Hurst
Irving
Killeen
Longview
Lufkin
Mexia
Moore Station
Navasota - 30-40% black.
Pflugerville
Port Arthur
Round Rock
San Antonio
The Woodlands –
In certain sections, not whole city.
Tyler
Waco
Wichita Falls

[U.S. Virgin Islands]

Majority of territory residents are of black/Afro-Caribbean descent.

[Utah]

Most of state's blacks concentrated in Hill Air Force Base near Ogden.
Historically, the diverse SugarHouse district of Salt Lake City.

[Vermont]

– Sizable black population in the area.
Arlington
Danville
Denbigh
Eastern counties of Virginia along Chesapeake Bay.
It encompasses six Virginia counties:
Franklin
Henrico County
Martinsville
Norfolk
Petersburg
Jackson Ward, Richmond
South Boston
Virginia Beach
Seattle
Tacoma
Tukwila – est.15–20%.

[West Virginia]

[Wisconsin]

Middleton
Milwaukee
Racine