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Brunswick County, North Carolina

11,546 Black residents · 8.4% of the county · ranked 43 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

Brunswick County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Brunswick County held 136,693 residents in all, of whom 11,546 — 8.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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	136,693
Black residents (alone), 2020	11,546
Black share of the county, 2020	8.4%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	43 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

The two-census record for Brunswick County: 12,291 Black residents in 2010 and 11,546 in 2020. The population declined by 6.1%, and the Black share in Brunswick County moved from 11.4% to 8.4%.

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 North Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 100 counties and county equivalents, Brunswick County among them; it stands 43 by Black population, with 11,546 Black residents of the state's 2.1 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 Brunswick County, North Carolina, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Brunswick County, North Carolina, 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 Brunswick County page gives the frame they stand in: 136,693 residents in all, 11,546 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.