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Frederick County, Maryland

27,802 Black residents · 10.2% of the county · ranked 10 of 24 in Maryland by Black population

Frederick County is a Maryland county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Frederick County held 271,717 residents in all, of whom 27,802 — 10.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Maryland 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, 2020271,717
Black residents (alone), 202027,802
Black share of the county, 202010.2%
Rank by Black population among Maryland counties10 of 24

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 two-census record for Frederick County: 20,148 Black residents in 2010 and 27,802 in 2020. The population grew by 38.0%, and the Black share in Frederick County moved from 8.6% to 10.2%.

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 Maryland, the Census Bureau counts 24 counties and county equivalents, Frederick County among them; it stands 10 by Black population, with 27,802 Black residents of the state's 1.8 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 Frederick County, Maryland, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Frederick County, Maryland, 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 Frederick County page gives the frame they stand in: 271,717 residents in all, 27,802 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.