List of African-American neighborhoods

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 cultureÃ¢ÂÂ 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; and Detroit, Michigan. 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

16th Street
East Thomas
Ensley
North Birmingham
Smithfield
Titusville
Black Belt of Alabama Ã¢ÂÂ 18 counties in Alabama, a total of 52% African-American population.
Hobson City
Mobile
Dauphin Square
Leinkauf
Montgomery
Prichard
Skyline
White Hall

Alaska

Fairbanks

Arizona

Arcadia, Maricopa County, Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona
Chandler, Maricopa County Southeast of Phoenix, next to Gilbert
Dunbar Spring Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
Gilbert, Maricopa County
Glendale, Maricopa County
Goodyear, Maricopa County
Marana, Pima County, Northwest of Tucson
Maryvale Phoenix
Randolph, Pinal County (historical)
Scottsdale Maricopa County
Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona

Arkansas

Altheimer

Birdsong

Conway

Cross Roads, Arkansas

Dumas

Gould

Grady

Helena and West Helena

East Little Rock
Southwest

California

Allensworth in Tulare County (historical)

Antelope Valley

Avenal

Bakersfield

Lakeview
Oleander/Sunset
Southwest Bakersfield

Berkeley

Blacks Beach, Santa Monica (historic).

Bruce's Beach, Manhattan Beach (historic).

California City

Chowchilla

Woodland Park, Chula Vista

Corcoran

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

Emeryville

Fairfield

Tolenas

Folsom (historic Negro Bar).

Fresno

Edison (Southwest Fresno)

Hayward Ã¢ÂÂ communities found in Jackson Triangle, North Hayward, and Upper B Street areas.

Hercules
Lake Elsinore Ã¢ÂÂ Yarborough neighborhood of Old Town. Riverside County Ã¢ÂÂ goes back to the 1880s when the city incorporated (historic).

Long Beach Ã¢ÂÂ Concentrated near north of 10th Street and south of Willow Street, east of Long Beach Boulevard and west of Walnut Avenue.

Davenport Park
Central Long Beach
North
Ramona Park

Los Angeles

Adams Lake (decreasingly black).
Adams-Normandie
Baldwin Hills (some in unincorporated county area)
Bronzeville (historic)
Chesterfield Square
Crenshaw
Exposition Park
Gramercy Park
Green Meadows
Hyde Park
Jefferson Park
Lafayette Square
Lake View Terrace
Leimert Park
Little Ethiopia (home to an Ethiopian and Eritrean community)
Manchester Square
Mid City
Normandie Gardens (Southwest Los Angeles)
Pico-Union (historic, no longer very black)
South of Interstate 10 in South L.A. (historic, now abandoned, called "Ghost Town")
South Central (Florence/Normandie intersection site of 1992 riot)
Venice (Oakwood)
Vermont Knolls
Vermont Square
Vermont Vista
Victoria Park
Village Green
Watts
West Adams
Westchester

Los Angeles County

Altadena
Athens
Carson
Compton (especially in Downtown Compton and Sunny Cove)
"Freetown", Whittier
Gardena
Hawthorne
Inglewood
Crenshaw-Imperial
Hollywood Park
Morningside Park
North Inglewood
Ladera Heights
Lancaster
Palmdale
Pomona
Sun Village
View Park-Windsor Hills
West Athens
West Compton
Westmont
Willowbrook

Marin City

Merced

Loughborough, North Merced
Childs Ave, South Merced
Glen Ave, East Merced

Oakland

Acorn Projects
Beulah (historic district)
Broadway Auto Row
Brookfield Village
Bushrod Park
Campbell Village Court
Cypress Hill or "the Tree" (more Mexican and Latino).
Chabot Park
Cypress Village
Dimond District
Dogtown
Downtown Oakland
Eastmont
East Oakland
Elmhurst
Ghost Town
Golden Gate
Havenscourt
Lincoln Park/ Lincoln Square (more Chinese and Asian).
Lockwood Gardens
Longfellow
Lower Bottoms
Lower Oakland.
Maxwell Park
Millsmont
North Oakland, which also includes Ethiopian and Eritrean American communities
Ralph Bunche
San Antonio
Santa Fe
Seminary
Sequoyah Heights
Sobrante Park
West Oakland

Pasadena (esp southwest side and South Pasadena)

Pinole

Pittsburg

Richmond

Riverside Ã¢ÂÂ

Blaine Park.
East Side Riverside Ã¢ÂÂ along University and Chicago Avenues.
North End Riverside.
Raincross Square Ã¢ÂÂ downtown.
University City.
University Heights.

Nearby cities:

Blythe Ã¢ÂÂ (15% black)
Crossley Tract, Palm Springs extends to Cathedral City.
Desert Highland Gateway Estates, Palm Springs.
Desert Hot Springs.
Dream Homes Subdivision, Cathedral City, (near Palm Springs).

Mead Valley.
Moreno Valley Ã¢ÂÂ (17% black).
Nobles Ranch near Indio Fashion Mall, Indio.
North End, Palm Springs.
Desert Highland Gateway Estates
Palm Springs Villas II
Mountain Gate
Perris Ã¢ÂÂ esp. near March Air Base.
Section 14, Palm Springs (historic, abandoned in the 1960s).
West Indio (Nairobi Village) (limited).

Sacramento

Nearby cities:

San Bernardino area Ã¢ÂÂ

Downtown San Bernardino.
Indian Springs, near Seccombe Lake Park.
Mount Vernon Avenue.
University District, San Bernardino (Kendall Farms and North Park).
Waterman-North End.
West Side San Bernardino.

Nearby cities:

Adelanto Ã¢ÂÂ 20.5% due to most leaving to San Bernardino County and the Victorville area.
Alta Loma in Rancho Cucamonga.
Barstow Ã¢ÂÂ concentrated in northeast Barstow along with Hispanics.
Downtown Colton Ã¢ÂÂ among many Hispanics.
Fontana Ã¢ÂÂ esp. north of Foothill Blvd.
Highland.
Muscoy Ã¢ÂÂ unincorporated.
Rialto Ã¢ÂÂ esp. East side.
Twentynine Palms near 29 Palms USMC Base.
Victorville Ã¢ÂÂ esp. Eagle Ranch.
west side Rancho Cucamonga.

San Diego

San Diego area-

Calipatria
Lemon Grove
Oceanside (over 5%, Camp Pendleton).

San Francisco

San Jose

Alameda Street (gentrified in the 2000s).
Almaden Ã¢ÂÂ formerly black area.
Autumn Street/West Side (historic, no longer mostly black).
Burbank, Santa Clara County, California/ Burbank District in San Jose.
Northwest side Ã¢ÂÂ has the historic Coachella Valley Church.

Bristol Street, McFadden Avenue, Raitt Street and Santa Ana Boulevard in Santa Ana

Santa Clara

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

Seaside

Stockton

Downtown Stockton
Kentfield
Weberstown

Suisun City (20%) Ã¢ÂÂ Solano County.

Susanville

Tehachapi

Vallejo

Val Verde resort (historic).

Weed

Lincoln Heights (mostly burned down in September 2022 fire; parts of Weed have some Black residents but fewer compared to mid-20th century when most of the Black community worked on the railroads).

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

Southeast Colorado Springs

Denver

Fountain

Connecticut

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 46Ã¢ÂÂ49% black in 2018. DC remains the largest African-American percentage population of any state or territory in the mainland US.

Adams Morgan
Anacostia
Arboretum
Barry Farm
Barney Circle
Bellevue
Benning
Benning Ridge
Brentwood
Buena Vista
Burrville
Capitol Hill
Carver Langston
Central Northeast
Civic Betterment
Cleveland Park
Congress Heights
Deanwood
Douglass
Dupont Park
Eastland Gardens
Eckington
Edgewood
Fairfax Village
Fairlawn
Foggy Bottom
Fort Davis
Fort Dupont
Fort Lincoln
Garfield Heights
Good Hope
Greenway
Hillbrook
Hillcrest
Ivy City
Kenilworth
Kingman Park
Knox Hill
Langdon
Lincoln Heights
Logan Circle
Marshall Heights
Mayfair
Michigan Park
Mount Pleasant
Naylor Gardens
North Michigan Park
Northwest side (closer to Mount Pleasant)
Penn Branch
Petworth
Randle Highlands
River Terrace
Riggs Park
Shaw
Shipley Terrace
Skyland
The Strivers' Section
Sursum Corda
Trinidad, Washington, D.C.
Twining
U Street Corridor
Washington Highlands
Woodland
Woodridge

Florida

Angola

Collier County

East Dunbar, Fort Myers

Lee County

Miami and Miami-Dade County

Brownsville
Carol City, neighborhood of Miami Gardens
Coconut Grove
Goulds
Liberty City
Little Haiti
Miami Gardens
Model City
Opa-locka
Overtown
Richmond Heights
West Perrine

Orange County

Eatonville - highest percentage in FL.
Orlando (Central section).
Parramore, Orlando
Pine Hills
Tangelo

Newtown, Palatka

Kendall Green, Pompano Beach

Palm Beach County

Pasco County

Wesley Chapel

Polk County

Moorehead, now the site of RP Funding Center
Webster Park

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

St. Augustine

Carver Ranches, West Park

Georgia

Atlanta - majority African-American.

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

Stewart County

Stone Mountain

Downtown
Redan
Stephenson

Talbot County

Idaho

Mountain Home near Mountain Home AFB.

Illinois

Cairo

Chicago

South Side
Ashburn
Auburn Gresham
Avalon Park
Bronzeville
Burnside
Calumet Heights
Chatham
Chicago Lawn
Douglas
Englewood
Fuller Park
Grand Boulevard
Greater Grand Crossing
Hyde Park
Kenwood
Morgan Park
Near South Side
New City
Oakland
Pullman
Riverdale
Roseland
South Chicago
South Deering
South Shore
Washington Heights
Washington Park
West Englewood
West Pullman
Woodlawn
West Side
Austin
East Garfield Park
Humboldt Park
Near West Side
North Lawndale
West Garfield Park
North Side
Cabrini Green
Suburbs
Bellwood
Broadview
Burnham
Calumet City
Calumet Park
Chicago Heights
Country Club Hills
Crete (Lincolnshire Estates, Willowbrook Estates)
Dixmoor
Dolton
East Hazel Crest
Flossmoor
Ford Heights
Glenwood
Harvey
Hazel Crest
Hillside
Homewood
Lansing
Lynwood
Markham
Matteson
Maywood
Olympia Fields
Park Forest
Phoenix
Richton Park
Riverdale
Robbins
Sauk Village
South Holland
University Park

Joliet

Kankakee County

Peoria

West Peoria

Pulaski County

St. Clair County

Indiana

Gary

Indianapolis

Avondale Meadows
Bridgeport (Sunnyside/West Parkview) (historic)
Crooked Creek
Devington
Haughville
Indiana Avenue (historic)
Flanner House Homes
Lockefield Gardens
Ransom Place Historic District
MartindaleÃ¢ÂÂBrightwood
Norwood
United Northwest Area
NorthwestÃ¢ÂÂRiverside

Merrillville

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

Elkhorn Park
Idle Hour - Idle Hour Country Club (10+%)
Winburn

Louisville

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

Russellville

Black Bottom

Louisiana

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

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

Mississippi Delta region.

Monroe

Natchitoches

New Iberia (Also has a rich Louisiana Creole history)

Maine

Kennedy Park, Portland

Maryland

Anne Arundel County

Jessup

Baltimore

Baltimore County

Berry Road area (MD route 228).

Charles County

Montgomery County

Ken-Gar

Prince George's County

Ridge near St. Inigoes

St. Mary's County

Somerset County

Princess Anne

Massachusetts

Boston

Beacon Hill (historically)
Dorchester
Dot-west (West Dorchester)
Hyde Park
Jamaica Plain
Mattapan
Roxbury
Blue Hill Avenue
South Boston (site of 1975 racial conflicts in integration of a high school).
West End (also had Latinos, Italians and Jews, and Irish).

Other places in MA

Brockton Massachusetts
Brookline Massachusetts
Cambridge Massachusetts
Chestnut Hill Massachusetts
Concord Massachusetts
Everett Massachusetts
Leverett Massachusetts
Lowell Massachusetts, aka "Mill City".
Lynn Massachusetts.
Marblehead Massachusetts
Malden Massachusetts.
Medford Massachusetts.
New Bedford Massachusetts (New Bedford has many Portuguese, Cape Verdeans and Angolans).
Newburyport Massachusetts
Newton Massachusetts
Oak Bluffs Massachusetts|Oak Bluffs- (sizable affluent Black-African American community, esp. tourism and seasonal residences).
Provincetown Massachusetts
Randolph Massachusetts.
Stoughton Massachusetts
Springfield Massachusetts (Springfield had a historic amateur black basketball team the Americans known to play against the Harlem Globetrotters who later became an entertainment team).
Waltham Massachusetts
West Medford
Worcester
Belmont Street
Main South
Norrback Avenue
Plumley Village East Projects

Michigan

Bay City

Benton Harbor Ã¢ÂÂ site of 2003 riots

Beverly Hills

Birmingham

Bloomfield area-

Bloomfield Village
Charing Cross
Circle
Oak Grove

Bloomfield Hills

West Bloomfield

Detroit

Black Bottom
Brightmoor
Clark Park
Conant Gardens
Dexter-Linwood
Downriver
East Side
"South" Side
Southwest Side
West Side

Warren Ã¢ÂÂ est. 15Ã¢ÂÂ20%.

Minnesota

Minneapolis

Rochester

River Court
Sunnyside

Saint Paul

Mississippi

Black Belt of Mississippi Ã¢ÂÂ Large African-American majority region.

Byhalia

Clarksdale - 68% black

Davis Bend, Mississippi/Louisiana.

Falcon Ã¢ÂÂ 98% black.

Russ College

Jackson

Georgetown
Queens-Magnolia Terrace
Shady Oaks
Stadium Side
Presidential Hills
Virden Addition
Washington Addition

University Park/Palisades

Leland - 2/3 of the town is black.

Mississippi Delta region.

Mound Bayou Ã¢ÂÂ 98% black.

Tougaloo

Yazoo City

Missouri

North St. Louis (the West Walnut Manor area).
Old North St. Louis
Tower Grove South
The Ville
Walnut Park area of St. Louis

St. Louis County

Nebraska

Bellevue

Lincoln

Omaha - Northeast, Omaha

Lexington

South Sioux City

Nevada

Tule Springs North Las Vegas, Clark County
West Las Vegas
North Las Vegas, Nevada - Master Planned Communities (21% black)

New Jersey

New Mexico

Albuquerque

Parts of Downtown Albuquerque
Kirtland Air Force Base
South Broadway (somewhat historical, but area still retains a visible African-American community)

Blackdom (historical; currently a ghost town)

Clovis (some areas)

Hobbs (some areas)

New York

The Bronx:
Allerton
Baychester
Co-op City
Eastchester
Edenwald
Fordham
Highbridge
Morrisania
Mott Haven
Olinville
Parkchester
Soundview
South Bronx
Tremont
Wakefield
Williamsbridge
Brooklyn:
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brownsville
Bushwick
Canarsie
City Line
Clinton Hill
Crown Heights (site of 1991 riot)
Cypress Hills
East Flatbush
East New York
Flatbush
Flatlands
Fort Greene
Ocean Hill
Starrett City
Stuyvesant Heights
Weeksville
Wingate
Manhattan:
Hamilton Heights
Harlem (the "Black Mecca" of African-American culture, esp 1920sÃ¢ÂÂ30s).
San Juan Hill
Seneca Village (destroyed when creating Central Park)
Sugar Hill
Queens:
Arverne
Cambria Heights
East Elmhurst
Elmhurst
Far Rockaway
Hollis
Jamaica
Laurelton
Queensbridge
Queens Village
Rosedale
St. Albans (including Addisleigh Park)
South Jamaica
Springfield Gardens
Staten Island:
Clifton
Mariners Harbor
New Brighton
Park Hill
Stapleton
Tompkinsville

Orange County

Poughkeepsie (site of 1927 race riot)

Cornhill

White Plains

Yonkers

North Carolina

East End/Valley Street Neighborhood, Asheville

Eastland, Charlotte

Hayti, Durham

Emorywoods Estate, Durham, North Carolina

Elizabeth City

Goldsboro

Greensboro Ã¢ÂÂ 40.6% black, historic black city in the South since slavery, colonial times, Civil rights and the Civil war.

Henderson

James City

Kinston (62% black)

Crestdale Matthews Formerly Tank Town

Oxford

Princeville

Raleigh

East RaleighÃ¢ÂÂSouth Park Historic District Ã¢ÂÂ Largest African American neighborhood in Raleigh.
Madonna Acres Historic District, historic black district in Raleigh

Woodland (45/45% split black/white)

Ohio

Oregon District

North Park
South Side

Warren

Warrensville Heights

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.

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