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Kershaw County, South Carolina

15,256 Black residents · 23.3% of the county · ranked 23 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

Kershaw County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Kershaw County held 65,403 residents in all, of whom 15,256 — 23.3% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — South 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	65,403
Black residents (alone), 2020	15,256
Black share of the county, 2020	23.3%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	23 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 two-census record for Kershaw County: 15,188 Black residents in 2010 and 15,256 in 2020. The population grew by 0.4%, and the Black share in Kershaw County moved from 24.6% to 23.3%.

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

Kershaw 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 Kershaw County's 15,256 of them give it rank 23 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 Kershaw County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Kershaw 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 Kershaw County page is their frame: 65,403 residents, 15,256 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.