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Clarendon County, South Carolina

13,919 Black residents · 44.7% of the county · ranked 24 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters Clarendon County, South Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 31,144 in 2020, with 13,919 Black residents counted alone — 44.7% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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	31,144
Black residents (alone), 2020	13,919
Black share of the county, 2020	44.7%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	24 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 published record across two censuses for Clarendon County: 17,504 Black residents in 2010, 13,919 in 2020 — declined by 20.5% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 50.1% to 44.7%.

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

Within South Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 46 counties and county equivalents, Clarendon County among them; it stands 24 by Black population, with 13,919 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 Clarendon County, South Carolina, exactly as published.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Clarendon 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 Clarendon County page is their frame: 31,144 residents, 13,919 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.