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Dillon County, South Carolina
12,727 Black residents · 45.0% of the county · ranked 28 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
Dillon County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Dillon County held 28,292 residents in all, of whom 12,727 — 45.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 28,292 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 12,727 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 45.0% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 28 of 46 |
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 Dillon County: 14,782 Black residents in 2010 and 12,727 in 2020. The population declined by 13.9%, and the Black share in Dillon County moved from 46.1% to 45.0%.
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 South Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 46 counties and county equivalents, Dillon County among them; it stands 28 by Black population, with 12,727 Black residents of the state's 1.3 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 Dillon County, South Carolina, exactly as published.
Institutions
Black Dillon County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Dillon County page holds the frame around them — 28,292 people in all, 12,727 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.