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Abbeville County, South Carolina
6,205 Black residents · 25.5% of the county · ranked 41 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
In Abbeville County, South Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 24,295 people, 6,205 of them Black alone. At 25.5%, Abbeville County's Black share stands against the state's 25.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 24,295 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 6,205 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 25.5% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 41 of 46 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
Population Trend
In 2010 Abbeville County counted 7,187 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 6,205. The population declined by 13.7% across the decade, and the Black share in Abbeville County moved from 28.3% to 25.5%.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
The Record
The state's Black population of 1.3 million is spread across 46 counties and county equivalents; Abbeville County holds 6,205 of it, rank 41 in the state's order. The county page for Abbeville County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Abbeville County, South Carolina, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Abbeville County page gives the frame they stand in: 24,295 residents in all, 6,205 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.