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Harnett County, North Carolina

27,417 Black residents · 20.5% of the county · ranked 17 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters Harnett County, North Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 133,568 in 2020, with 27,417 Black residents counted alone — 20.5% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — North 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	133,568
Black residents (alone), 2020	27,417
Black share of the county, 2020	20.5%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	17 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 published record across two censuses for Harnett County: 23,973 Black residents in 2010, 27,417 in 2020 — grew by 14.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 20.9% to 20.5%.

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

Harnett County is one of 100 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Together they hold the state's 2.1 million Black residents, and Harnett County's 27,417 of them give it rank 17 of 100 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 Harnett County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Harnett 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 Harnett County page is their frame: 133,568 residents, 27,417 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.