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Caswell County, North Carolina

6,824 Black residents · 30.0% of the county · ranked 59 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

Caswell County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Caswell County held 22,736 residents in all, of whom 6,824 — 30.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — North Carolina 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	22,736
Black residents (alone), 2020	6,824
Black share of the county, 2020	30.0%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	59 of 100

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 Caswell County: 8,020 Black residents in 2010 and 6,824 in 2020. The population declined by 14.9%, and the Black share in Caswell County moved from 33.8% to 30.0%.

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

Caswell County is one of 100 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Together they hold the state's 2.1 million Black residents, and Caswell County's 6,824 of them give it rank 59 of 100 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 Caswell County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Caswell 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 Caswell County page is their frame: 22,736 residents, 6,824 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.