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Effingham County, Georgia
8,845 Black residents · 13.7% of the county · ranked 50 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
In Effingham County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 64,769 people, 8,845 of them Black alone. At 13.7%, Effingham County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 64,769 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,845 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 13.7% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 50 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
In 2010 Effingham County counted 7,048 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 8,845. The population grew by 25.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Effingham County moved from 13.5% to 13.7%.
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, Effingham County among them; it stands 50 by Black population, with 8,845 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 Effingham County, Georgia, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Effingham 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 Effingham County page gives the frame they stand in: 64,769 residents in all, 8,845 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.