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Carroll County, Maryland

6,482 Black residents · 3.7% of the county · ranked 17 of 24 in Maryland by Black population

The gazetteer enters Carroll County, Maryland, on its published figures: a total population of 172,891 in 2020, with 6,482 Black residents counted alone — 3.7% 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 — Maryland 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, 2020172,891
Black residents (alone), 20206,482
Black share of the county, 20203.7%
Rank by Black population among Maryland counties17 of 24

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: 5,332 Black residents in 2010, 6,482 in 2020 — grew by 21.6% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 3.2% to 3.7%.

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 24 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Maryland. Together they hold the state's 1.8 million Black residents, and Carroll County's 6,482 of them give it rank 17 of 24 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

The institutions of Black Carroll County, Maryland, 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 Carroll County page gives the frame they stand in: 172,891 residents in all, 6,482 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.