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Ben Hill County, Georgia
6,267 Black residents · 36.4% of the county · ranked 63 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
In Ben Hill County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 17,194 people, 6,267 of them Black alone. At 36.4%, Ben Hill County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 17,194 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 6,267 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 36.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 63 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 Ben Hill County counted 6,104 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 6,267. The population grew by 2.7% across the decade, and the Black share in Ben Hill County moved from 34.6% to 36.4%.
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
Within Georgia, the Census Bureau counts 159 counties and county equivalents, Ben Hill County among them; it stands 63 by Black population, with 6,267 Black residents of the state's 3.3 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Ben Hill County, Georgia, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Ben Hill 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 Ben Hill County page gives the frame they stand in: 17,194 residents in all, 6,267 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.