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Clayton County, Georgia
207,981 Black residents · 69.9% of the county · ranked 4 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
In Clayton County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 297,595 people, 207,981 of them Black alone. At 69.9%, Clayton County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 297,595 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 207,981 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 69.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 4 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
In 2010 Clayton County counted 171,480 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 207,981. The population grew by 21.3% across the decade, and the Black share in Clayton County moved from 66.1% to 69.9%.
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 3.3 million is spread across 159 counties and county equivalents; Clayton County holds 207,981 of it, rank 4 in the state's order. The county page for Clayton County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Clayton 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 Clayton County page gives the frame they stand in: 297,595 residents in all, 207,981 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.