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Cumberland County, North Carolina

127,610 Black residents · 38.1% of the county · ranked 4 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters Cumberland County, North Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 334,728 in 2020, with 127,610 Black residents counted alone — 38.1% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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	334,728
Black residents (alone), 2020	127,610
Black share of the county, 2020	38.1%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	4 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 published record across two censuses for Cumberland County: 117,117 Black residents in 2010, 127,610 in 2020 — grew by 9.0% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 36.7% to 38.1%.

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

Within North Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 100 counties and county equivalents, Cumberland County among them; it stands 4 by Black population, with 127,610 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 Cumberland County, North Carolina, exactly as published.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Cumberland 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 Cumberland County page is their frame: 334,728 residents, 127,610 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.