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Bullock County, Alabama

7,396 Black residents · 71.4% of the county · ranked 38 of 67 in Alabama by Black population

In Bullock County, Alabama, the 2020 Census counted 10,357 people, 7,396 of them Black alone. At 71.4%, Bullock County's Black share stands against the state's 25.8% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Alabama 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, 202010,357
Black residents (alone), 20207,396
Black share of the county, 202071.4%
Rank by Black population among Alabama counties38 of 67

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 Bullock County counted 7,666 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 7,396. The population declined by 3.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Bullock County moved from 70.2% to 71.4%.

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 Alabama, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Bullock County among them; it stands 38 by Black population, with 7,396 Black residents of the state's 1.3 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 Bullock County, Alabama, exactly as published.

Institutions

Black Bullock County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Bullock County page holds the frame around them — 10,357 people in all, 7,396 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.