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Coweta County, Georgia

25,867 Black residents · 17.7% of the county · ranked 22 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Coweta County, Georgia, on its published figures: a total population of 146,158 in 2020, with 25,867 Black residents counted alone — 17.7% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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Black share of state population — Georgia 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 2020146,158
Black residents (alone), 202025,867
Black share of the county, 202017.7%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties22 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

The published record across two censuses for Coweta County: 22,029 Black residents in 2010, 25,867 in 2020 — grew by 17.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 17.3% to 17.7%.

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

Coweta County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Coweta County's 25,867 of them give it rank 22 of 159 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Coweta County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Coweta 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 Coweta County page is their frame: 146,158 residents, 25,867 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.