Data & Insights Hub

About the Project

The Black Families Flourishing Data & Insights Hub is designed to help community members, researchers, and policymakers better understand the population of Black families with children in the United States. Using publicly available Census data, the hub complements existing analyses of demographic data on the U.S. Black population ^{1 2} by centering on Black families with children.

We drew on 2019-2023 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) microdata from IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota to better understand Black family households. The data contain information on individuals, including householders, who self-identified as Black alone or in combination with other races and/or Latino ethnicity. We define Black family households as a family household that includes at least one child up to age 25, where either the youngest child in the household or a primary caregiver (i.e., biological parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, grandparent) is Black.³

Data

The Data feature of the Hub includes interactive maps that allow users to explore county-level demographic information on Black family households with children. The following maps are included:

Geography

• Percent Black Family Households

Income

• Average Income of Black Family Households
• Average Income Difference, Black Family Households and All Family Households
• Black Family Household Income Compared to State Median Income
• Black Family Household Income Compared to County Median Income

Child Age

• Percent of Black Family Households with Children 0-5
• Percent of Black Family Households with Children 6-11
• Percent of Black Family Households with Children 12-17
• Percent of Black Family Households with Children 18-25

Family Structure

• Percent of Black Family Households with Multiple or Skip Generations

Ethnicity

• Most Common Ethnicity of Black Family Households

To utilize the visualization, select a variable from the “Select data to display on the map” drop down menu. Within each of these options, users can hover over an individual county for information related to the selected characteristic. Additionally, users can search for an individual county using the “Search for a county” bar.

Once a county is selected, a detailed snapshot of Black Family Households within that county will appear. To close the profile, click “X” in the upper right corner. (For counties that appear grey, we are unable to provide data due to small sample sizes.)

Insights

The Insights feature of the Hub provides brief, interpretive summaries based on the interactive data maps (forthcoming). Check back in 2026 for more information about our Insights series.

Suggested Citation

To cite the Black Family Flourishing Data, please use the following format,
including the name of the map cited and the retrieval date:

The Black Family Flourishing Data & Insights Hub. (2026). Percent Black family households [Map]. Black Families Flourishing Project. Retrieved January 23, 2026, from
www.blackfamiliesflourishing.com

Footnotes

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/23/key-facts-about-black-americans/ ↩︎
2. The Black Wealth Data Center. (2025). Explore data – Population: Population counts by race/ethnicity (Statewide, 2023). https://blackwealthdata.org/explore/population ↩︎
3. In the households where at least one parent is present, we coded the household as Black when either the youngest child or a parent/the parent(s) is Black. In the households where parents are not present, we coded the household as Black when either the youngest child or a grandparent/the grandparent(s) is Black. In other words, grandparents’ races were only considered in households without parents. We excluded households that included children without a caregiver (e.g., a 25-year-old person living on their own) and children in households with their spouses without their own children or caregivers (e.g., 20-year-old person with their partner). ↩︎