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Catawba County, North Carolina

12,835 Black residents · 8.0% of the county · ranked 40 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

Catawba County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Catawba County held 160,610 residents in all, of whom 12,835 — 8.0% — 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	160,610
Black residents (alone), 2020	12,835
Black share of the county, 2020	8.0%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	40 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 Catawba County: 13,041 Black residents in 2010 and 12,835 in 2020. The population declined by 1.6%, and the Black share in Catawba County moved from 8.4% to 8.0%.

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

Catawba 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 Catawba County's 12,835 of them give it rank 40 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 Catawba County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Catawba 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 Catawba County page is their frame: 160,610 residents, 12,835 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.