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Dorchester County, South Carolina
38,733 Black residents · 24.0% of the county · ranked 13 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
In Dorchester County, South Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 161,540 people, 38,733 of them Black alone. At 24.0%, Dorchester County's Black share stands against the state's 25.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 161,540 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 38,733 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 24.0% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 13 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
In 2010 Dorchester County counted 35,266 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 38,733. The population grew by 9.8% across the decade, and the Black share in Dorchester County moved from 25.8% to 24.0%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.3 million is spread across 46 counties and county equivalents; Dorchester County holds 38,733 of it, rank 13 in the state's order. The county page for Dorchester County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Dorchester County, South Carolina, 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 Dorchester County page gives the frame they stand in: 161,540 residents in all, 38,733 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.