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Fayette County, Tennessee

11,080 Black residents · 26.4% of the county · ranked 10 of 95 in Tennessee by Black population

In Fayette County, Tennessee, the 2020 Census counted 41,990 people, 11,080 of them Black alone. At 26.4%, Fayette County's Black share stands against the state's 15.8% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Tennessee 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202041,990
Black residents (alone), 202011,080
Black share of the county, 202026.4%
Rank by Black population among Tennessee counties10 of 95

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 Fayette County counted 10,784 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 11,080. The population grew by 2.7% across the decade, and the Black share in Fayette County moved from 28.1% to 26.4%.

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 1.1 million is spread across 95 counties and county equivalents; Fayette County holds 11,080 of it, rank 10 in the state's order. The county page for Fayette County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Fayette 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 Fayette County page is their frame: 41,990 residents, 11,080 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.