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Edgecombe County, North Carolina
27,429 Black residents · 56.1% of the county · ranked 16 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population
In Edgecombe County, North Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 48,900 people, 27,429 of them Black alone. At 56.1%, Edgecombe County's Black share stands against the state's 20.5% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 48,900 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 27,429 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 56.1% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties | 16 of 100 |
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 Edgecombe County counted 32,435 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 27,429. The population declined by 15.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Edgecombe County moved from 57.4% to 56.1%.
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
The state's Black population of 2.1 million is spread across 100 counties and county equivalents; Edgecombe County holds 27,429 of it, rank 16 in the state's order. The county page for Edgecombe County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Edgecombe County, North 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 Edgecombe County page gives the frame they stand in: 48,900 residents in all, 27,429 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.