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Carroll County, Georgia

22,126 Black residents · 18.6% of the county · ranked 26 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Carroll County, Georgia, on its published figures: a total population of 119,148 in 2020, with 22,126 Black residents counted alone — 18.6% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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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, 2020119,148
Black residents (alone), 202022,126
Black share of the county, 202018.6%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties26 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 published record across two censuses for Carroll County: 20,089 Black residents in 2010, 22,126 in 2020 — grew by 10.1% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 18.2% to 18.6%.

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

Carroll County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Carroll County's 22,126 of them give it rank 26 of 159 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 Carroll County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Carroll 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 Carroll County page is their frame: 119,148 residents, 22,126 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.