List of African-American neighborhoods explained

The list contains the names of cities, districts, and neighborhoods in the U.S. that are predominantly African American or that are strongly associated with African-American culture— either currently or historically. Included are areas that contain high concentrations of blacks or African Americans. Not counted are Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Latinos, Afro-Asian, Afro-Indian, Afro-Polynesian, West African, and Sub-Saharan African immigrants.

The largest African-American community is in Atlanta, Georgia; followed by Washington, DC; Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida;[1] and Detroit, Michigan.[2] About 80 percent of the city population is African-American. A quarter of Metro Detroit (Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties) are African-American.

Neighborhoods and Master Planned Communities

Alabama

Birmingham

Black Belt of Alabama – 18 counties in Alabama, a total of 52% African-American population.[3]

Hobson City

Mobile

Montgomery

Prichard

Skyline

White Hall

Alaska

Anchorage

Fairbanks

Arizona

Arkansas

Altheimer

Conway

Cross Roads, Arkansas

Dumas

Gould

Grady

Helena and West Helena

Jonesboro

Lake Village

Little Rock

Pine Bluff

Stuttgart

West Memphis

California

Allensworth in Tulare County (historical)

Antelope Valley[4]

Avenal

Bakersfield[5]

Berkeley

Blacks Beach, Santa Monica (historic).

Bruce's Beach, Manhattan Beach (historic).

California City[6]

Chowchilla

Woodland Park, Chula Vista[7]

Corcoran

East Palo Alto – one of Silicon Valley's largest Black percentage cities, declined from a Black majority or plurality in 1970s and 1980s (17% from 2010)

Emeryville

Folsom (historic Negro Bar).

Hayward – communities found in Jackson Triangle, North Hayward, and Upper B Street areas.

Long Beach

Los Angeles

Los Angeles County

Marin City

Merced

Mojave

Oakland[14]

Pasadena (esp southwest side and South Pasadena)[15]

Pinole

Pittsburg

Richmond

Riverside –

Nearby cities:

Sacramento

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[18]

Santa Rosa - South Park (historic), and Black/Eritrean communities in Northcoast Street/Piner Road area

Seaside

Stockton[19]

Suisun City (20%) – Solano County.

Susanville

Tehachapi

Val Verde resort (historic).

Weed

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)

Colorado

Aurora

Colorado Springs

Denver

Fountain

Connecticut

Bloomfield

Blue Hills

Bridgeport[20]

Capaco

Danbury

North End, Hartford

Middletown

New Haven

New London

Norwalk

Stamford

Waterbury

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

Angola

Collier County

East Dunbar, Fort Myers

Fort Lauderdale

Gretna

Hillsborough County

Jacksonville

Lee County

Miami and Miami-Dade County

Orange County

Newtown, Palatka

Kendall Green, Pompano Beach

Palm Beach County

Pasco County

Polk County

Prospect Bluff Historic Sites

Riviera Beach

Rosewood (historic)

Fort Mose Historic State Park, St. Augustine

Sanford

Sea Islands (northern coast), home to the Gullah and Geechee peoples (African creoles).

South Bay

Frenchtown, Tallahassee

St. Johns County

Carver Ranches, West Park

Georgia

Atlanta - majority African-American.

Albany[23]

Augusta[24]

Bellevue, Macon

Cairo

Clayton County

Douglasville

Hancock County

Hinesville

Jefferson County

Lithonia

Macon

Savannah

Sea Islands (southern coast), home to the Gullah and Geechee peoples (African creoles).

Stewart County

Stone Mountain

Talbot County

Idaho

Illinois

Cairo

Chicago

Joliet

Kankakee County

Peoria

Pulaski County

St. Clair County

Indiana

Gary

Indianapolis

Merrillville

Washington Township, Randolph County (outside Lynn – 1% while it's higher outside Lynn)

Iowa

Cedar Rapids

Quad Cities area

Saylorville

Kansas

Cherokee Township (Weir, Kansas)

Dodge City

Kansas City, Kansas

Morton City, Kansas ("Exoduster" historic site)[38] [39]

Junction City[40]

Kentucky

Lexington

Louisville

Paducah – While the city itself is about 25% African American, the city school district's high school is about 50% African American.

Russellville

Louisiana

Acadiana region in Louisiana has several historically African-American majority towns.

Alexandria[41]

Bastrop

Baton Rouge

Black Belt of Louisiana[42] - Bobtown, Mossville, St. Maurice and Washington.

Donaldsonville

Edgar

Grambling

Jeanerette

Lafayette

Lake Charles

Mississippi Delta region.

Monroe

Natchitoches

New Orleans

Opelousas

Shreveport

Tallulah

Wallace

Maine

Kennedy Park, Portland

Maryland

Anne Arundel County

Baltimore

Baltimore County

Berry Road area (MD route 228).

Charles County

Montgomery County

Prince George's County

Ridge near St. Inigoes

St. Mary's County

Somerset County

Massachusetts

Boston

Other places in MA

Michigan

Bay City

Benton Harbor – site of 2003 riots

Beverly Hills

Birmingham

Bloomfield area-

Detroit

Flint

Hamtramck Highland Park

Inkster

Jackson

Kalamazoo

Lansing

Midland

Muskegon Heights

Pontiac

Saginaw

Southfield

Warren – est. 15–20%.

Minnesota

Minneapolis

Rochester

Saint Paul

Mississippi

Black Belt of Mississippi – Large African-American majority region.[46]

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

Charleston[47]

Hayti Heights

Kansas City

St. Louis

St. Louis County

Nebraska

Bellevue[48]

Lincoln[48]

Omaha - most live in Northeast Omaha.

South Sioux City[48]

Nevada

New Jersey

New Mexico

Albuquerque[52]

Blackdom (historical; currently a ghost town)

Clovis (some areas)

Hobbs (some areas)

New York

Albany

Buffalo

Mount Vernon

Nassau County

New York City

Orange County

Poughkeepsie (site of 1927 race riot)

Rochester

Rockland County

Suffolk County

Syracuse

Utica

White Plains

Yonkers

North Carolina

East End/Valley Street Neighborhood, Asheville

Eastland, Charlotte

Hayti, Durham

Emorywoods Estate, Durham, NorthCarolina

Elizabeth City

Goldsboro

Greensboro – 40.6% black, historic black city in the South since slavery, colonial times, Civil rights and the Civil war.[55]

Henderson

James City[56]

Kinston[57] (62% black)

Crestdale Matthews Formerly Tank Town

Oxford

Princeville

Raleigh

Rocky Mount

Roxboro

Sedalia[58]

Tarboro

Wadesboro[59]

Williamston

Woodland (45/45% split black/white)

Ohio

Akron

Canton

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Columbus

East Jackson-Waverly

Newark

Springfield

Warren

Warrensville Heights[84]

Youngstown

Oklahoma

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 (1860s) to nearby Kansas. One example is Freedom not to be confused with Freedom in the western half of the state.[85]

"All-Black" settlements that were part of the Land Run of 1889.[86]

Among the Oklahoma Territory all Black towns no longer in existence are Lincoln, Cimarron City, Bailey, Zion, Emanuel, Udora, and Douglas.

Bristow – 10% Black

Eufaula

Langston[87]

Oklahoma City

Tahlequah East side

Tulsa – 15% black city

Turley – 20–25% Black

Oregon

Portland

Eugene[88]

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Rhode Island

Pawtucket

Providence

South Carolina

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 (38.3%)

Sea Islands (South Carolina coast, home to the Gullah and Geechee peoples (African creoles).

Sumter (47.03%)

Tennessee

Chattanooga[89]

Denmark

Dyersburg

Jackson

Knoxville

Memphis

Nashville

Whiteville[90]

Texas

Austin

Austin suburbs

Beaumont-Port Arthur-Orange (Golden Triangle area)[91]

Central Texas - Waco-College Station area.

Corpus Christi Texas, Nueces County

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Dallas

Dallas County

Fort Worth

Tarrant County

East Texas has some Black majority towns. Also known as the Big Thicket, and Piney Woods region[94]

Houston

Houston Suburbs

Killeen-Temple (Bell County)

Northeast Texas

San Antonio

Wichita Falls

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

Most of state's blacks concentrated in Hill Air Force Base near Ogden.

Historically, the diverse SugarHouse district of Salt Lake City.

Vermont

Virginia

Alexandria – Black population, at 31,314 (19.64%) in 2020 Census.

Arlington County – Black population, at 20,330 (8.52%) in 2020 Census.

Charles City County – Black population, at 2,836 (41.87%) in 2020 Census.

Chase City - Mecklenburg County

Cheasapeake

Clarksville - Mecklenburg County

Courtland - Southampton County

Danville[97]

Dendron (51.2%) - Surry County

Eastern counties of Virginia along Chesapeake Bay (Middle Peninsula).It encompasses six Virginia counties:

Emporia (56.2%) - Greensville County

Franklin (52.3%)

Hampton

Hopewell

Kenbridge - Lunenburg County

Lawrenceville (64.6%) - Brunswick County

Lynchburg

Martinsville

Nassawadox (54.9%) - Northampton County

Newport News

Norfolk

Petersburg

Portsmouth

Richmond - Henrico County

Roanoke

Smithfield - Isle of Wight County

South Boston - Halifax County

South Hill - Mecklenburg County

Suffolk

Wakefield (51.3%) - Sussex County

Waverly (61.8%) - Sussex County

Williamsburg

Virginia Beach

Washington

Federal Way

Parkland

Seatac

Seattle

Tacoma

Tukwila – est.15–20%.

West Virginia

Institute

Keystone

Kimball

Wisconsin

Beloit[98]

Kenosha

Madison[99]

Middleton

Milwaukee

Racine

See also

Notes and References

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