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Houston County, Georgia

52,610 Black residents · 32.2% of the county · ranked 15 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

In Houston County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 163,633 people, 52,610 of them Black alone. At 32.2%, Houston County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Georgia 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, 2020163,633
Black residents (alone), 202052,610
Black share of the county, 202032.2%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties15 of 159

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 Houston County counted 39,998 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 52,610. The population grew by 31.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Houston County moved from 28.6% to 32.2%.

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

Houston County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Houston County's 52,610 of them give it rank 15 of 159 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 Houston County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Houston County, Georgia, 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 Houston County page gives the frame they stand in: 163,633 residents in all, 52,610 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.