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Butts County, Georgia

6,832 Black residents · 26.9% of the county · ranked 60 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

Butts County is a Georgia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Butts County held 25,434 residents in all, of whom 6,832 — 26.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Georgia 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, 202025,434
Black residents (alone), 20206,832
Black share of the county, 202026.9%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties60 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

The two-census record for Butts County: 6,469 Black residents in 2010 and 6,832 in 2020. The population grew by 5.6%, and the Black share in Butts County moved from 27.3% to 26.9%.

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

The state's Black population of 3.3 million is spread across 159 counties and county equivalents; Butts County holds 6,832 of it, rank 60 in the state's order. The county page for Butts County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Butts 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 Butts County page is their frame: 25,434 residents, 6,832 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.