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Mitchell County, Georgia

10,114 Black residents · 46.5% of the county · ranked 46 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Mitchell County, Georgia, on its published figures: a total population of 21,755 in 2020, with 10,114 Black residents counted alone — 46.5% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — Georgia 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	21,755
Black residents (alone), 2020	10,114
Black share of the county, 2020	46.5%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties	46 of 159

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 published record across two censuses for Mitchell County: 11,219 Black residents in 2010, 10,114 in 2020 — declined by 9.8% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 47.7% to 46.5%.

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

Mitchell County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Mitchell County's 10,114 of them give it rank 46 of 159 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 Mitchell County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Mitchell County, Georgia, 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 Mitchell County page gives the frame they stand in: 21,755 residents in all, 10,114 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.