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Haywood County, Tennessee
9,032 Black residents · 50.6% of the county · ranked 15 of 95 in Tennessee by Black population
Haywood County is a Tennessee county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Haywood County held 17,864 residents in all, of whom 9,032 — 50.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 17,864 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,032 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 50.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Tennessee counties | 15 of 95 |
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 Haywood County: 9,465 Black residents in 2010 and 9,032 in 2020. The population declined by 4.6%, and the Black share in Haywood County moved from 50.4% to 50.6%.
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 Tennessee, the Census Bureau counts 95 counties and county equivalents, Haywood County among them; it stands 15 by Black population, with 9,032 Black residents of the state's 1.1 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 Haywood County, Tennessee, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Haywood County, Tennessee, 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 Haywood County page gives the frame they stand in: 17,864 residents in all, 9,032 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.