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Lee County, South Carolina

10,084 Black residents · 61.0% of the county · ranked 33 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

Lee County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Lee County held 16,531 residents in all, of whom 10,084 — 61.0% — 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	16,531
Black residents (alone), 2020	10,084
Black share of the county, 2020	61.0%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	33 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 Lee County: 12,359 Black residents in 2010 and 10,084 in 2020. The population declined by 18.4%, and the Black share in Lee County moved from 64.3% to 61.0%.

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

Lee 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 Lee County's 10,084 of them give it rank 33 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 Lee County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Lee 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 Lee County page is their frame: 16,531 residents, 10,084 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.