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Charlotte County, Florida
9,268 Black residents · 5.0% of the county · ranked 37 of 67 in Florida by Black population
The gazetteer enters Charlotte County, Florida, on its published figures: a total population of 186,847 in 2020, with 9,268 Black residents counted alone — 5.0% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 186,847 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,268 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 5.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 37 of 67 |
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 Charlotte County: 9,089 Black residents in 2010, 9,268 in 2020 — grew by 2.0% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 5.7% to 5.0%.
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
Within Florida, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Charlotte County among them; it stands 37 by Black population, with 9,268 Black residents of the state's 3.2 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 Charlotte County, Florida, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Charlotte County, Florida, 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 Charlotte County page gives the frame they stand in: 186,847 residents in all, 9,268 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.