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Hardin County, Kentucky

12,825 Black residents · 11.6% of the county · ranked 5 of 120 in Kentucky by Black population

In Hardin County, Kentucky, the 2020 Census counted 110,702 people, 12,825 of them Black alone. At 11.6%, Hardin County's Black share stands against the state's 8.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Kentucky 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, 2020110,702
Black residents (alone), 202012,825
Black share of the county, 202011.6%
Rank by Black population among Kentucky counties5 of 120

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 Hardin County counted 12,275 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 12,825. The population grew by 4.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Hardin County moved from 11.6% to 11.6%.

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

Hardin County is one of 120 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Kentucky. Together they hold the state's 362,417 Black residents, and Hardin County's 12,825 of them give it rank 5 of 120 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 Hardin County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Hardin County, Kentucky, 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 Hardin County page gives the frame they stand in: 110,702 residents in all, 12,825 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.