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Edgefield County, South Carolina

8,365 Black residents · 32.6% of the county · ranked 39 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

In Edgefield County, South Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 25,657 people, 8,365 of them Black alone. At 32.6%, Edgefield County's Black share stands against the state's 25.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.

Black share of state population — South Carolina 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	25,657
Black residents (alone), 2020	8,365
Black share of the county, 2020	32.6%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	39 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 Edgefield County counted 10,030 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 8,365. The population declined by 16.6% across the decade, and the Black share in Edgefield County moved from 37.2% to 32.6%.

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

Edgefield County is one of 46 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in South Carolina. Together they hold the state's 1.3 million Black residents, and Edgefield County's 8,365 of them give it rank 39 of 46 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 Edgefield County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Edgefield 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 Edgefield County page is their frame: 25,657 residents, 8,365 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.