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Lexington County, South Carolina
42,924 Black residents · 14.6% of the county · ranked 10 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population
Lexington County is a South Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Lexington County held 293,991 residents in all, of whom 42,924 — 14.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 293,991 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 42,924 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 14.6% |
| Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties | 10 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 Lexington County: 37,522 Black residents in 2010 and 42,924 in 2020. The population grew by 14.4%, and the Black share in Lexington County moved from 14.3% to 14.6%.
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 1.3 million is spread across 46 counties and county equivalents; Lexington County holds 42,924 of it, rank 10 in the state's order. The county page for Lexington County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Lexington 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 Lexington County page gives the frame they stand in: 293,991 residents in all, 42,924 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.