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Charleston County, South Carolina
92,598 Black residents · 22.7% of the county · ranked 2 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
Charleston County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Charleston County held 408,235 residents in all, of whom 92,598 — 22.7% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 408,235 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 92,598 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 22.7% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 2 of 46 |
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 Charleston County: 104,239 Black residents in 2010 and 92,598 in 2020. The population declined by 11.2%, and the Black share in Charleston County moved from 29.8% to 22.7%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.3 million is spread across 46 counties and county equivalents; Charleston County holds 92,598 of it, rank 2 in the state's order. The county page for Charleston County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Charleston County, South Carolina, 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 Charleston County page gives the frame they stand in: 408,235 residents in all, 92,598 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.