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Charles County, Maryland
82,035 Black residents · 49.2% of the county · ranked 6 of 24 in Maryland by Black population
Charles County is a Maryland county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Charles County held 166,617 residents in all, of whom 82,035 — 49.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 166,617 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 82,035 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 49.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Maryland counties | 6 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 two-census record for Charles County: 60,031 Black residents in 2010 and 82,035 in 2020. The population grew by 36.7%, and the Black share in Charles County moved from 41.0% to 49.2%.
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 Maryland, the Census Bureau counts 24 counties and county equivalents, Charles County among them; it stands 6 by Black population, with 82,035 Black residents of the state's 1.8 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 Charles County, Maryland, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Charles 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 Charles County page gives the frame they stand in: 166,617 residents in all, 82,035 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.