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Anderson County, South Carolina
30,440 Black residents · 14.9% of the county · ranked 14 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
Anderson County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Anderson County held 203,718 residents in all, of whom 30,440 — 14.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 203,718 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 30,440 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 14.9% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 14 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
The two-census record for Anderson County: 30,020 Black residents in 2010 and 30,440 in 2020. The population grew by 1.4%, and the Black share in Anderson County moved from 16.0% to 14.9%.
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; Anderson County holds 30,440 of it, rank 14 in the state's order. The county page for Anderson County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
Black Anderson County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Anderson County page holds the frame around them — 203,718 people in all, 30,440 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.