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Calhoun County, South Carolina
5,372 Black residents · 38.0% of the county · ranked 43 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
Calhoun County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Calhoun County held 14,119 residents in all, of whom 5,372 — 38.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 14,119 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 5,372 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 38.0% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 43 of 46 |
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 Calhoun County: 6,459 Black residents in 2010 and 5,372 in 2020. The population declined by 16.8%, and the Black share in Calhoun County moved from 42.6% to 38.0%.
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 South Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 46 counties and county equivalents, Calhoun County among them; it stands 43 by Black population, with 5,372 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 Calhoun County, South Carolina, exactly as published.
Institutions
Black Calhoun County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Calhoun County page holds the frame around them — 14,119 people in all, 5,372 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.