Where you live
Enter your ZIP code or street address to find your state below and the people who decide this for you, by name. SourceLine does not keep the address.
Ranked from doing best
Every state
| Margin of error | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | 55.9% | plus or minus 0.6 points | 70% |
| 2 | South Carolina | 55.3% | plus or minus 0.6 points | 71.9% |
| 3 | Delaware | 54.8% | plus or minus 1.4 points | 73% |
| 4 | Maryland | 53% | plus or minus 0.6 points | 67.6% |
| 5 | Alabama | 52% | plus or minus 0.7 points | 70.2% |
| 6 | Georgia | 50.7% | plus or minus 0.5 points | 65.7% |
| 7 | Louisiana | 49.7% | plus or minus 0.6 points | 67.4% |
| 8 | Virginia | 49.4% | plus or minus 0.6 points | 67.3% |
| 9 | Florida | 49.1% | plus or minus 0.5 points | 67.6% |
| 10 | North Carolina | 47.5% | plus or minus 0.5 points | 66.6% |
| 11 | West Virginia | 45.5% | plus or minus 2.1 points | 74.9% |
| 12 | Michigan | 44.9% | plus or minus 0.6 points | 73.2% |
| 13 | Pennsylvania | 44.1% | plus or minus 0.7 points | 69.3% |
| 14 | Arkansas | 43.9% | plus or minus 0.8 points | 66.4% |
| 15 | Tennessee | 43.4% | plus or minus 0.6 points | 66.9% |
| 16 | Connecticut | 42.4% | plus or minus 1.2 points | 66.5% |
| 17 | Colorado | 41.6% | plus or minus 1.3 points | 66.2% |
| 18 | Texas | 41.5% | plus or minus 0.4 points | 62.6% |
| 19 | Illinois | 41.2% | plus or minus 0.5 points | 67.1% |
| 20 | Missouri | 40.6% | plus or minus 0.7 points | 68.1% |
| 21 | New Jersey | 40% | plus or minus 0.7 points | 63.8% |
| 22 | Indiana | 39.7% | plus or minus 0.9 points | 70.6% |
| 23 | Arizona | 39.5% | plus or minus 1.3 points | 67.4% |
| 24 | Kentucky | 39.1% | plus or minus 0.9 points | 68.3% |
| 25 | Oklahoma | 38.7% | plus or minus 1.1 points | 65.8% |
| 26 | Massachusetts | 37.4% | plus or minus 0.9 points | 62.5% |
| 27 | Ohio | 37.2% | plus or minus 0.6 points | 67.2% |
| 28 | Kansas | 36.8% | plus or minus 1.5 points | 67.2% |
| 29 | Rhode Island | 36.8% | plus or minus 3.1 points | 63.6% |
| 30 | California | 35.7% | plus or minus 0.5 points | 55.9% |
| 31 | District of Columbia | 35.3% | plus or minus 1.4 points | 41.5% |
| 32 | Washington | 34.7% | plus or minus 1.1 points | 63.8% |
| 33 | Nevada | 33.5% | plus or minus 1 points | 60% |
| 34 | Oregon | 33.4% | plus or minus 2 points | 63.3% |
| 35 | New York | 32.7% | plus or minus 0.4 points | 54.3% |
| 36 | Nebraska | 31.3% | plus or minus 1.8 points | 66.5% |
| 37 | Minnesota | 30.1% | plus or minus 1.1 points | 72.2% |
| 38 | Iowa | 27.3% | plus or minus 1.7 points | 71.7% |
| 39 | Wisconsin | 27.3% | plus or minus 0.9 points | 67.8% |
| Not ranked | Alaska | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 66.8% | |
| Not ranked | Hawaii | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 63% | |
| Not ranked | Idaho | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 72.1% | |
| Not ranked | Maine | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 74.3% | |
| Not ranked | Montana | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 69.2% | |
| Not ranked | New Hampshire | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 72.8% | |
| Not ranked | New Mexico | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 70% | |
| Not ranked | North Dakota | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 62.9% | |
| Not ranked | South Dakota | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 68.6% | |
| Not ranked | Utah | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 70.2% | |
| Not ranked | Vermont | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 73.2% | |
| Not ranked | Wyoming | Too small to report: fewer than 20,000 Black households | 71.8% |
Ranked: the 39 states measured in survey years 2020 to 2024 with at least 20,000 Black households. Places below that line are still listed, with the reason.
Who decides
From you up to Congress. Look up your address above and each step fills in with the people who hold that seat for you.
You and your neighbors Know your rights as a renter or owner, check your property tax assessment, and show up when zoning is decided.
Ask: Is my assessment right, and when is the deadline to appeal it?
Your mayor, council and county commission Decide zoning, property taxes, code enforcement and how local housing money is spent.
Ask: What is being built here, who can afford it, and who decided?
Your state legislators Write landlord and tenant law and decide where the housing tax credit goes.
Ask: Where did our state place its housing tax credits last year?
Your members of Congress Fund rent help, public housing and the housing tax credit.
Ask: How long is the wait for rent help in our county?
What you can do
- This weekLook up your property assessment or reread your lease, and write down any deadline.
- The next date that mattersThe next zoning hearing or property tax appeal deadline in your county.
- Where your voice is countedRaise what matters where you live on SourceLine issues. Only confirmed residents are counted, and SourceLine shares the totals, never names, with the body that decides.
Method and sources
Black households that own their home. Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey, survey years 2020 to 2024.
The margin of error is how far the true figure could be from the one shown. Surveys ask some people, not everyone, so smaller places have wider margins. A place with too few people to measure well is listed but not ranked.
Population, voting age population, citizens of voting age, registered voters and people who voted are different counts. Each page says which one it uses.
Who decides: the people named come from SourceLine’s record of officeholders for the address you enter. Where SourceLine hasn’t updated a level for your area yet, that step says so.