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Baldwin County, Georgia

18,404 Black residents · 42.0% of the county · ranked 28 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

In Baldwin County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 43,799 people, 18,404 of them Black alone. At 42.0%, Baldwin County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Georgia 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, 202043,799
Black residents (alone), 202018,404
Black share of the county, 202042.0%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties28 of 159

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 Baldwin County counted 18,965 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 18,404. The population declined by 3.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Baldwin County moved from 41.5% to 42.0%.

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

Baldwin County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Baldwin County's 18,404 of them give it rank 28 of 159 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 Baldwin County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Baldwin County, Georgia, 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 Baldwin County page gives the frame they stand in: 43,799 residents in all, 18,404 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.