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Forsyth County, North Carolina

95,324 Black residents · 24.9% of the county · ranked 6 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

In Forsyth County, North Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 382,590 people, 95,324 of them Black alone. At 24.9%, Forsyth County's Black share stands against the state's 20.5% — the comparison this entry is built around.

Black share of state population — North 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	382,590
Black residents (alone), 2020	95,324
Black share of the county, 2020	24.9%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	6 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 Forsyth County counted 91,227 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 95,324. The population grew by 4.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Forsyth County moved from 26.0% to 24.9%.

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

Forsyth County is one of 100 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Together they hold the state's 2.1 million Black residents, and Forsyth County's 95,324 of them give it rank 6 of 100 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 Forsyth County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Forsyth 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 Forsyth County page gives the frame they stand in: 382,590 residents in all, 95,324 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.