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Guilford County, North Carolina
181,848 Black residents · 33.6% of the county · ranked 3 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population
Guilford County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Guilford County held 541,299 residents in all, of whom 181,848 — 33.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 541,299 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 181,848 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 33.6% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties | 3 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
The two-census record for Guilford County: 158,899 Black residents in 2010 and 181,848 in 2020. The population grew by 14.4%, and the Black share in Guilford County moved from 32.5% to 33.6%.
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 North Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 100 counties and county equivalents, Guilford County among them; it stands 3 by Black population, with 181,848 Black residents of the state's 2.1 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 Guilford County, North Carolina, exactly as published.
Institutions
Black Guilford County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Guilford County page holds the frame around them — 541,299 people in all, 181,848 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.