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Colbert County, Alabama
9,286 Black residents · 16.2% of the county · ranked 28 of 67 in Alabama by Black population
In Colbert County, Alabama, the 2020 Census counted 57,227 people, 9,286 of them Black alone. At 16.2%, Colbert County's Black share stands against the state's 25.8% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 57,227 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,286 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 16.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Alabama counties | 28 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
In 2010 Colbert County counted 8,768 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 9,286. The population grew by 5.9% across the decade, and the Black share in Colbert County moved from 16.1% to 16.2%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.3 million is spread across 67 counties and county equivalents; Colbert County holds 9,286 of it, rank 28 in the state's order. The county page for Colbert County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Colbert County, Alabama, 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 Colbert County page gives the frame they stand in: 57,227 residents in all, 9,286 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.