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Cherokee County, South Carolina

11,370 Black residents · 20.2% of the county · ranked 29 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

Cherokee County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Cherokee County held 56,216 residents in all, of whom 11,370 — 20.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — South 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	56,216
Black residents (alone), 2020	11,370
Black share of the county, 2020	20.2%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	29 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 Cherokee County: 11,278 Black residents in 2010 and 11,370 in 2020. The population grew by 0.8%, and the Black share in Cherokee County moved from 20.4% to 20.2%.

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 South Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 46 counties and county equivalents, Cherokee County among them; it stands 29 by Black population, with 11,370 Black residents of the state's 1.3 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 Cherokee County, South Carolina, exactly as published.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Cherokee 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 Cherokee County page is their frame: 56,216 residents, 11,370 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.