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Colleton County, South Carolina
13,467 Black residents · 34.9% of the county · ranked 25 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
Colleton County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Colleton County held 38,604 residents in all, of whom 13,467 — 34.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 38,604 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 13,467 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 34.9% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 25 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 Colleton County: 15,178 Black residents in 2010 and 13,467 in 2020. The population declined by 11.3%, and the Black share in Colleton County moved from 39.0% to 34.9%.
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 1.3 million is spread across 46 counties and county equivalents; Colleton County holds 13,467 of it, rank 25 in the state's order. The county page for Colleton County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Colleton County, South Carolina, 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 Colleton County page gives the frame they stand in: 38,604 residents in all, 13,467 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.