Racial makeup of U.S. metro areas and cities

Every metro area, every city of 100,000 or more and every state, from the American Community Survey 2025.

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Racial makeup of U.S. metro areas, 2025

Top 25 metro areas, ordered by population. White, Black and Asian are non-Hispanic.

WhiteBlackAsianHispanicOther or mixed
  • United States55%21%
  • New York-Newark41%27%
  • Los Angeles-Long Beach27%17%46%
  • Chicago-Naperville47%15%25%
  • Dallas-Fort Worth39%16%31%
  • Houston-Pasadena30%17%40%
  • Atlanta-Sandy Springs40%33%
  • Washington-Arlington39%24%19%
  • Miami-Fort Lauderdale27%18%48%
  • Philadelphia-Camden56%19%
  • Phoenix-Mesa50%32%
  • Boston-Cambridge63%
  • Riverside-San Bernardino25%55%
  • San Francisco-Oakland33%30%24%
  • Detroit-Warren62%21%
  • Seattle-Tacoma53%18%
  • Minneapolis-St. Paul68%
  • Tampa-St. Petersburg55%24%
  • San Diego-Chula Vista40%36%
  • Denver-Aurora57%26%
  • Orlando-Kissimmee40%35%
  • Charlotte-Concord54%21%
  • Baltimore-Columbia50%28%
  • San Antonio-New Braunfels30%56%
  • St. Louis69%17%
  • Austin-Round Rock45%34%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year, table B03002birthrate.io/demographics/us/metros

A metro area includes the suburbs, so it can look very different from its city. The Detroit metro is 62% White and 21% Black; the city of Detroit is 12% White and 72% Black.

Groups do not overlap and add up to 100%. People of Middle Eastern and North African origin count as White, because the survey has no separate category for them. Figures are survey estimates with a margin of error, which matters most for small groups in small places. Data: Census Bureau table B03002. See also the state map.