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Anne Arundel County, Maryland

104,473 Black residents · 17.8% of the county · ranked 5 of 24 in Maryland by Black population

Anne Arundel County is a Maryland county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Anne Arundel County held 588,261 residents in all, of whom 104,473 — 17.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Maryland highlighted — the state in the national tile map, shaded by the Black share of each state's population. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census (PL 94-171), Table P1.

Civic Snapshot

MeasureFigure
Total population, 2020588,261
Black residents (alone), 2020104,473
Black share of the county, 202017.8%
Rank by Black population among Maryland counties5 of 24

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 Anne Arundel County: 83,484 Black residents in 2010 and 104,473 in 2020. The population grew by 25.1%, and the Black share in Anne Arundel County moved from 15.5% to 17.8%.

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

Anne Arundel County is one of 24 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Maryland. Together they hold the state's 1.8 million Black residents, and Anne Arundel County's 104,473 of them give it rank 5 of 24 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Anne Arundel County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Anne Arundel County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Anne Arundel County page is their frame: 588,261 residents, 104,473 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.