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Crisp County, Georgia

8,879 Black residents · 44.1% of the county · ranked 49 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

Crisp County is a Georgia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Crisp County held 20,128 residents in all, of whom 8,879 — 44.1% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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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, 202020,128
Black residents (alone), 20208,879
Black share of the county, 202044.1%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties49 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 two-census record for Crisp County: 10,079 Black residents in 2010 and 8,879 in 2020. The population declined by 11.9%, and the Black share in Crisp County moved from 43.0% to 44.1%.

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

Crisp 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 Crisp County's 8,879 of them give it rank 49 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 Crisp County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Crisp 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 Crisp County page is their frame: 20,128 residents, 8,879 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.