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Jasper County, South Carolina
9,645 Black residents · 33.5% of the county · ranked 34 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
The gazetteer enters Jasper County, South Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 28,791 in 2020, with 9,645 Black residents counted alone — 33.5% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 28,791 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,645 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 33.5% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 34 of 46 |
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 Jasper County: 11,406 Black residents in 2010, 9,645 in 2020 — declined by 15.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 46.0% to 33.5%.
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
Jasper County is one of 46 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in South Carolina. Together they hold the state's 1.3 million Black residents, and Jasper County's 9,645 of them give it rank 34 of 46 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 Jasper County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Jasper County, South Carolina, 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 Jasper County page gives the frame they stand in: 28,791 residents in all, 9,645 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.