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Jones County, Georgia
6,767 Black residents · 23.9% of the county · ranked 61 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
In Jones County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 28,347 people, 6,767 of them Black alone. At 23.9%, Jones County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 28,347 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 6,767 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 23.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 61 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 Jones County counted 7,008 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 6,767. The population declined by 3.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Jones County moved from 24.4% to 23.9%.
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 Georgia, the Census Bureau counts 159 counties and county equivalents, Jones County among them; it stands 61 by Black population, with 6,767 Black residents of the state's 3.3 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 Jones County, Georgia, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Jones 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 Jones County page gives the frame they stand in: 28,347 residents in all, 6,767 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.