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Greenville County, South Carolina

88,181 Black residents · 16.8% of the county · ranked 3 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters Greenville County, South Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 525,534 in 2020, with 88,181 Black residents counted alone — 16.8% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — South 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	525,534
Black residents (alone), 2020	88,181
Black share of the county, 2020	16.8%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	3 of 46

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 Greenville County: 81,497 Black residents in 2010, 88,181 in 2020 — grew by 8.2% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 18.1% to 16.8%.

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

Greenville County is one of 46 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in South Carolina. Together they hold the state's 1.3 million Black residents, and Greenville County's 88,181 of them give it rank 3 of 46 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 Greenville County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

Black Greenville County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Greenville County page holds the frame around them — 525,534 people in all, 88,181 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.