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Davidson County, Tennessee
173,092 Black residents · 24.2% of the county · ranked 2 of 95 in Tennessee by Black population
In Davidson County, Tennessee, the 2020 Census counted 715,884 people, 173,092 of them Black alone. At 24.2%, Davidson County's Black share stands against the state's 15.8% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 715,884 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 173,092 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 24.2% |
| Rank by Black population among Tennessee counties | 2 of 95 |
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
In 2010 Davidson County counted 173,730 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 173,092. The population declined by 0.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Davidson County moved from 27.7% to 24.2%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.1 million is spread across 95 counties and county equivalents; Davidson County holds 173,092 of it, rank 2 in the state's order. The county page for Davidson County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Davidson County, Tennessee, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Davidson County page gives the frame they stand in: 715,884 residents in all, 173,092 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.