thumb|Black Americans (alone) population pyramid in 2020 thumb|Proportion of African Americans in each US state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census thumb|Proportion of Black Americans (alone or in combination) in each county of the fifty states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States census thumb|Majority Black American counties in the United States according to the 2020 census thumb|US census map indicating US counties with fewer than 25 Black or African American inhabitants thumb|Graph showing the percentage of the African American population living in the American South, 1790–2010. Note the major declines between 1910 and 1940 and 1940–1970, and the reverse trend post-1970. Nonetheless, the absolute majority of the African American population has always lived in the American South.
thumb|Black Americans (alone) population pyramid in 2020 thumb|Proportion of African Americans in each US state, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census thumb|Proportion of Black Americ,ans (alone or in combination) in each county of the fifty states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States census thumb|Majority Black America,n counties in the United States according to the 2020 census thumb|US census map indicating US counties with fewer than 25 Black or African American inhabitants thumb|Graph showing the percentage of the African American population living in the American South 1790–2010. Note the major declines between 1910 and 1940 and 1940–1970, and the reverse trend post-1970. Nonetheless, the absolute majority of the African American population has always lived in the American South.