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Martin County, North Carolina
8,922 Black residents · 40.5% of the county · ranked 53 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population
Martin County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Martin County held 22,031 residents in all, of whom 8,922 — 40.5% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 22,031 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,922 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 40.5% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties | 53 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
The two-census record for Martin County: 10,651 Black residents in 2010 and 8,922 in 2020. The population declined by 16.2%, and the Black share in Martin County moved from 43.5% to 40.5%.
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
Martin County is one of 100 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Together they hold the state's 2.1 million Black residents, and Martin County's 8,922 of them give it rank 53 of 100 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 Martin County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Martin 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 Martin County page gives the frame they stand in: 22,031 residents in all, 8,922 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.