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Emanuel County, Georgia

7,264 Black residents · 31.9% of the county · ranked 57 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Emanuel County, Georgia, on its published figures: a total population of 22,768 in 2020, with 7,264 Black residents counted alone — 31.9% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — Georgia 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	22,768
Black residents (alone), 2020	7,264
Black share of the county, 2020	31.9%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties	57 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

The published record across two censuses for Emanuel County: 7,562 Black residents in 2010, 7,264 in 2020 — declined by 3.9% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 33.5% to 31.9%.

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

Emanuel County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Emanuel County's 7,264 of them give it rank 57 of 159 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 Emanuel County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Emanuel 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 Emanuel County page gives the frame they stand in: 22,768 residents in all, 7,264 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.