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Limestone County, Alabama

13,307 Black residents · 12.8% of the county · ranked 19 of 67 in Alabama by Black population

Limestone County is a Alabama county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Limestone County held 103,570 residents in all, of whom 13,307 — 12.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — Alabama 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	103,570
Black residents (alone), 2020	13,307
Black share of the county, 2020	12.8%
Rank by Black population among Alabama counties	19 of 67

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 Limestone County: 10,429 Black residents in 2010 and 13,307 in 2020. The population grew by 27.6%, and the Black share in Limestone County moved from 12.6% to 12.8%.

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

Limestone County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Alabama. Together they hold the state's 1.3 million Black residents, and Limestone County's 13,307 of them give it rank 19 of 67 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 Limestone County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Limestone 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 Limestone County page is their frame: 103,570 residents, 13,307 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.