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Bertie County, North Carolina

10,720 Black residents · 59.8% of the county · ranked 45 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

In Bertie County, North Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 17,934 people, 10,720 of them Black alone. At 59.8%, Bertie County's Black share stands against the state's 20.5% — the comparison this entry is built around.

Black share of state population — North Carolina 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	17,934
Black residents (alone), 2020	10,720
Black share of the county, 2020	59.8%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	45 of 100

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 Bertie County counted 13,296 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 10,720. The population declined by 19.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Bertie County moved from 62.5% to 59.8%.

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

Bertie County is one of 100 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Together they hold the state's 2.1 million Black residents, and Bertie County's 10,720 of them give it rank 45 of 100 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 Bertie County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Bertie 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 Bertie County page is their frame: 17,934 residents, 10,720 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.