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Monroe County, Georgia

6,113 Black residents · 21.9% of the county · ranked 64 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

In Monroe County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 27,957 people, 6,113 of them Black alone. At 21.9%, Monroe County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202027,957
Black residents (alone), 20206,113
Black share of the county, 202021.9%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties64 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

In 2010 Monroe County counted 6,268 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 6,113. The population declined by 2.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Monroe County moved from 23.7% to 21.9%.

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 3.3 million is spread across 159 counties and county equivalents; Monroe County holds 6,113 of it, rank 64 in the state's order. The county page for Monroe County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

Black Monroe County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Monroe County page holds the frame around them — 27,957 people in all, 6,113 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.