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Chatham County, Georgia
109,313 Black residents · 37.0% of the county · ranked 8 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
Chatham County is a Georgia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Chatham County held 295,291 residents in all, of whom 109,313 — 37.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 295,291 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 109,313 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 37.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 8 of 159 |
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 Chatham County: 106,392 Black residents in 2010 and 109,313 in 2020. The population grew by 2.7%, and the Black share in Chatham County moved from 40.1% to 37.0%.
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
Chatham County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Chatham County's 109,313 of them give it rank 8 of 159 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 Chatham County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Chatham County, Georgia, 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 Chatham County page gives the frame they stand in: 295,291 residents in all, 109,313 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.