Ranking of Massachusetts Cities and Places By Percentage of Voting-age Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020

Updated on February 22, 2026.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for Massachusetts counties, in April 2020, among all the cities and places with over 10K voting-age population in Massachusetts, Randolph Town city had the highest percentage of its voting-age population that identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone (40.84%), followed by Brockton city (32.62%), and Springfield city (18.42%).

The chart below shows the top 10 cities and places in Massachusetts, and the table below shows the ranking of all Massachusetts cities and places with over 10K voting-age population, based on the percentage of the voting-age population that identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone.

You can see similar ranking information for other states. You can also see similar rankings for other ethnicities as well as for the different racial groups in Massachusetts.

Ranking of Massachusetts Cities and Places By Percentage of Voting-age Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Randolph Town
Brockton
Springfield
Boston
Everett
Malden
Milton
Worcester
Lynn
Cambridge
Ranking of Massachusetts Cities and Places By Percentage of Voting-age Population that Identified as Non-Hispanic - Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
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Rank City or Place % of Place Voting-age Population
1 Randolph Town city 40.84
2 Brockton city 32.62
3 Springfield city 18.42
4 Boston city 17.83
5 Everett city 13.79
6 Malden city 13.31
7 Milton CDP 13.28
8 Worcester city 12.33
9 Lynn city 10.66
10 Cambridge city 9.22
11 Medford city 7.83
12 Lowell city 7.67
13 Taunton city 7.24
14 Bridgewater Town city 7.03
15 Chelsea city 6.67
16 Norwood CDP 6.66
17 Waltham city 6.53
18 Fitchburg city 6.03
19 Leominster city 5.92
20 Dedham CDP 5.87
21 Pittsfield city 5.85
22 Amherst Town city 5.64
23 Framingham city 5.63
24 Quincy city 5.19
25 Attleboro city 5.09
26 Somerville city 4.93
27 Woburn city 4.71
28 Revere city 4.53
29 New Bedford city 4.46
30 Fall River city 4.33
31 Weymouth Town city 4.22
32 Burlington CDP 4.16
33 Barnstable Town city 4.01
34 Chicopee city 3.83
35 Salem city 3.82
36 Methuen Town city 3.78
37 West Springfield Town city 3.58
38 Abington CDP 3.50
39 Haverhill city 3.42
40 Gardner city 3.41
41 Watertown Town city 3.38
42 Saugus CDP 3.32
43 Brookline CDP 3.12
44 Braintree Town city 3.08
45 Melrose city 3.03
46 Newton city 3.01
47 Marlborough city 3.00
48 Holyoke city 2.90
49 Northampton city 2.83
50 Peabody city 2.80
51 Stoneham CDP 2.65
52 North Attleborough Town city 2.61
53 North Adams city 2.56
54 Lawrence city 2.50
55 Arlington CDP 2.41
56 Wellesley CDP 2.24
57 Milford CDP 2.16
58 Winthrop Town city 2.13
59 Greenfield city 2.02
60 Belmont CDP 1.92
61 Franklin Town city 1.89
62 Beverly city 1.85
63 Southbridge Town city 1.82
64 Agawam Town city 1.81
65 Swampscott CDP 1.74
66 Westfield city 1.73
67 Palmer Town city 1.71
68 Hudson CDP 1.70
69 Danvers CDP 1.65
70 Wakefield CDP 1.55
71 Longmeadow CDP 1.35
72 Needham CDP 1.34
73 Lexington CDP 1.31
74 Reading CDP 1.20
75 Wilmington CDP 1.17
76 Amesbury Town city 1.10
76 Easthampton Town city 1.10
77 Winchester CDP 0.94
78 Gloucester city 0.82
78 Somerset CDP 0.82
79 Newburyport city 0.79
80 Marblehead CDP 0.69