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Bradley County, Tennessee

5,238 Black residents · 4.8% of the county · ranked 20 of 95 in Tennessee by Black population

Bradley County is a Tennessee county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Bradley County held 108,620 residents in all, of whom 5,238 — 4.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Tennessee 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, 2020108,620
Black residents (alone), 20205,238
Black share of the county, 20204.8%
Rank by Black population among Tennessee counties20 of 95

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 Bradley County: 4,219 Black residents in 2010 and 5,238 in 2020. The population grew by 24.2%, and the Black share in Bradley County moved from 4.3% to 4.8%.

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

Bradley County is one of 95 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Tennessee. Together they hold the state's 1.1 million Black residents, and Bradley County's 5,238 of them give it rank 20 of 95 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 Bradley County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Bradley County, Tennessee, 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 Bradley County page gives the frame they stand in: 108,620 residents in all, 5,238 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.