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Greenwood County, South Carolina

20,938 Black residents · 30.2% of the county · ranked 17 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters Greenwood County, South Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 69,351 in 2020, with 20,938 Black residents counted alone — 30.2% 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	69,351
Black residents (alone), 2020	20,938
Black share of the county, 2020	30.2%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	17 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 Greenwood County: 21,846 Black residents in 2010, 20,938 in 2020 — declined by 4.2% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 31.4% to 30.2%.

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 South Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 46 counties and county equivalents, Greenwood County among them; it stands 17 by Black population, with 20,938 Black residents of the state's 1.3 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 Greenwood County, South Carolina, exactly as published.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Greenwood 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 Greenwood County page is their frame: 69,351 residents, 20,938 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.