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Davidson County, North Carolina

16,065 Black residents · 9.5% of the county · ranked 31 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters Davidson County, North Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 168,930 in 2020, with 16,065 Black residents counted alone — 9.5% 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	168,930
Black residents (alone), 2020	16,065
Black share of the county, 2020	9.5%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	31 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 Davidson County: 14,421 Black residents in 2010, 16,065 in 2020 — grew by 11.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 8.9% to 9.5%.

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

Davidson County is one of 100 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Together they hold the state's 2.1 million Black residents, and Davidson County's 16,065 of them give it rank 31 of 100 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 Davidson County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Davidson 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 Davidson County page is their frame: 168,930 residents, 16,065 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.