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Baltimore County, Maryland
255,793 Black residents · 29.9% of the county · ranked 3 of 24 in Maryland by Black population
Baltimore County is a Maryland county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Baltimore County held 854,535 residents in all, of whom 255,793 — 29.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 854,535 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 255,793 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 29.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Maryland counties | 3 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 Baltimore County: 209,738 Black residents in 2010 and 255,793 in 2020. The population grew by 22.0%, and the Black share in Baltimore County moved from 26.1% to 29.9%.
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 1.8 million is spread across 24 counties and county equivalents; Baltimore County holds 255,793 of it, rank 3 in the state's order. The county page for Baltimore County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Baltimore County, Maryland, 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 Baltimore County page gives the frame they stand in: 854,535 residents in all, 255,793 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.