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Dooly County, Georgia
5,561 Black residents · 49.6% of the county · ranked 73 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
The gazetteer enters Dooly County, Georgia, on its published figures: a total population of 11,208 in 2020, with 5,561 Black residents counted alone — 49.6% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 11,208 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 5,561 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 49.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 73 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 published record across two censuses for Dooly County: 7,442 Black residents in 2010, 5,561 in 2020 — declined by 25.3% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 49.9% to 49.6%.
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 Georgia, the Census Bureau counts 159 counties and county equivalents, Dooly County among them; it stands 73 by Black population, with 5,561 Black residents of the state's 3.3 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 Dooly County, Georgia, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Dooly County, Georgia, 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 Dooly County page gives the frame they stand in: 11,208 residents in all, 5,561 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.