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Maury County, Tennessee

11,349 Black residents · 11.2% of the county · ranked 9 of 95 in Tennessee by Black population

Maury County is a Tennessee county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Maury County held 100,974 residents in all, of whom 11,349 — 11.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Tennessee 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 2020100,974
Black residents (alone), 202011,349
Black share of the county, 202011.2%
Rank by Black population among Tennessee counties9 of 95

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 Maury County: 10,154 Black residents in 2010 and 11,349 in 2020. The population grew by 11.8%, and the Black share in Maury County moved from 12.5% to 11.2%.

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 1.1 million is spread across 95 counties and county equivalents; Maury County holds 11,349 of it, rank 9 in the state's order. The county page for Maury County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

Black Maury County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Maury County page holds the frame around them — 100,974 people in all, 11,349 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.