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Columbus County, North Carolina

14,586 Black residents · 28.8% of the county · ranked 35 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

Columbus County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Columbus County held 50,623 residents in all, of whom 14,586 — 28.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — North 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	50,623
Black residents (alone), 2020	14,586
Black share of the county, 2020	28.8%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	35 of 100

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 Columbus County: 17,713 Black residents in 2010 and 14,586 in 2020. The population declined by 17.7%, and the Black share in Columbus County moved from 30.5% to 28.8%.

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 North Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 100 counties and county equivalents, Columbus County among them; it stands 35 by Black population, with 14,586 Black residents of the state's 2.1 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 Columbus County, North Carolina, exactly as published.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Columbus 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 Columbus County page is their frame: 50,623 residents, 14,586 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.