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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

330,458 Black residents · 29.6% of the county · ranked 1 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

Mecklenburg County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Mecklenburg County held 1.1 million residents in all, of whom 330,458 — 29.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — North 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	1,115,482
Black residents (alone), 2020	330,458
Black share of the county, 2020	29.6%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	1 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 Mecklenburg County: 282,804 Black residents in 2010 and 330,458 in 2020. The population grew by 16.9%, and the Black share in Mecklenburg County moved from 30.8% to 29.6%.

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

Mecklenburg 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 Mecklenburg County's 330,458 of them give it rank 1 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 Mecklenburg County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Mecklenburg 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 Mecklenburg County page gives the frame they stand in: 1.1 million residents in all, 330,458 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.