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Harford County, Maryland
37,706 Black residents · 14.5% of the county · ranked 8 of 24 in Maryland by Black population
In Harford County, Maryland, the 2020 Census counted 260,924 people, 37,706 of them Black alone. At 14.5%, Harford County's Black share stands against the state's 29.5% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 260,924 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 37,706 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 14.5% |
| Rank by Black population among Maryland counties | 8 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
In 2010 Harford County counted 31,058 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 37,706. The population grew by 21.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Harford County moved from 12.7% to 14.5%.
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, Harford County among them; it stands 8 by Black population, with 37,706 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 Harford County, Maryland, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Harford 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 Harford County page gives the frame they stand in: 260,924 residents in all, 37,706 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.