Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Population that are White Alone in 2012

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2012, among all California counties, Sierra County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their race as White Alone (95.21%), followed by Nevada County (94.01%), and Calaveras County (92.3%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all California counties.

You can see similar ranking information for other racial and ethnicity groups in the United States.

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Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are White Alone in 2012
Sierra
Nevada
Calaveras
Mono
Colusa
Plumas
Tehama
Tuolumne
Amador
Mariposa
Ranking of California Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are White Alone in 2012
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Sierra County 95.21
2 Nevada County 94.01
3 Calaveras County 92.3
4 Mono County 92.04
5 Colusa County 91.75
6 Plumas County 91.58
7 Tehama County 91.3
8 Tuolumne County 91.2
9 Amador County 90.97
10 Mariposa County 90.53
11 El Dorado County 90.45
12 Glenn County 90.15
13 Imperial County 89.62
14 Modoc County 89.29
15 San Luis Obispo County 89.28
16 Shasta County 88.94
17 San Benito County 88.81
18 Trinity County 88.77
19 Tulare County 88.55
20 Lake County 88.22
21 Santa Cruz County 88.07
22 Sonoma County 87.81
23 Siskiyou County 87.62
24 Butte County 87.16
25 Mendocino County 87.05
26 Placer County 86.76
27 Madera County 86.5
28 Marin County 86.33
29 Santa Barbara County 86.3
30 Napa County 85.55
31 Ventura County 85.2
32 Stanislaus County 84.49
33 Humboldt County 84.39
34 Kern County 82.96
35 Monterey County 82.56
36 Merced County 82.07
37 Inyo County 81.75
38 Kings County 81.52
39 Lassen County 81.41
40 Riverside County 80.85
41 Yuba County 79.76
42 Del Norte County 79.02
43 San Bernardino County 77.64
44 Fresno County 77.5
45 San Diego County 76.75
46 Yolo County 76.08
47 Sutter County 74.96
48 Orange County 74.41
49 Alpine County 72.64
50 Los Angeles County 71.55
51 San Joaquin County 68.45
52 Contra Costa County 68.22
53 Sacramento County 65.18
54 San Mateo County 63.66
55 Solano County 60.64
56 Santa Clara County 57.38
57 San Francisco County 54.4
58 Alameda County 52.11