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Dorchester County, Maryland

9,140 Black residents · 28.1% of the county · ranked 15 of 24 in Maryland by Black population

The gazetteer enters Dorchester County, Maryland, on its published figures: a total population of 32,531 in 2020, with 9,140 Black residents counted alone — 28.1% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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Black share of state population — Maryland 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202032,531
Black residents (alone), 20209,140
Black share of the county, 202028.1%
Rank by Black population among Maryland counties15 of 24

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 Dorchester County: 9,042 Black residents in 2010, 9,140 in 2020 — grew by 1.1% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 27.7% to 28.1%.

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

Dorchester County is one of 24 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Maryland. Together they hold the state's 1.8 million Black residents, and Dorchester County's 9,140 of them give it rank 15 of 24 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 Dorchester County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Dorchester 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 Dorchester County page is their frame: 32,531 residents, 9,140 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.