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Lee County, North Carolina
10,885 Black residents · 17.2% of the county · ranked 44 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population
In Lee County, North Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 63,285 people, 10,885 of them Black alone. At 17.2%, Lee County's Black share stands against the state's 20.5% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 63,285 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 10,885 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 17.2% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties | 44 of 100 |
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 Lee County counted 11,565 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 10,885. The population declined by 5.9% across the decade, and the Black share in Lee County moved from 20.0% to 17.2%.
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
The state's Black population of 2.1 million is spread across 100 counties and county equivalents; Lee County holds 10,885 of it, rank 44 in the state's order. The county page for Lee County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Lee County, North 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 Lee County page gives the frame they stand in: 63,285 residents in all, 10,885 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.