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Barrow County, Georgia
10,369 Black residents · 12.4% of the county · ranked 45 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
Barrow County is a Georgia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Barrow County held 83,505 residents in all, of whom 10,369 — 12.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 83,505 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 10,369 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 12.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 45 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
The two-census record for Barrow County: 7,889 Black residents in 2010 and 10,369 in 2020. The population grew by 31.4%, and the Black share in Barrow County moved from 11.4% to 12.4%.
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 3.3 million is spread across 159 counties and county equivalents; Barrow County holds 10,369 of it, rank 45 in the state's order. The county page for Barrow County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Barrow 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 Barrow County page gives the frame they stand in: 83,505 residents in all, 10,369 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.