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Montgomery County, Alabama
130,467 Black residents · 57.0% of the county · ranked 3 of 67 in Alabama by Black population
In Montgomery County, Alabama, the 2020 Census counted 228,954 people, 130,467 of them Black alone. At 57.0%, Montgomery County's Black share stands against the state's 25.8% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 228,954 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 130,467 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 57.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Alabama counties | 3 of 67 |
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 Montgomery County counted 125,477 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 130,467. The population grew by 4.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Montgomery County moved from 54.7% to 57.0%.
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
Within Alabama, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Montgomery County among them; it stands 3 by Black population, with 130,467 Black residents of the state's 1.3 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Montgomery County, Alabama, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Montgomery County, Alabama, 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 Montgomery County page gives the frame they stand in: 228,954 residents in all, 130,467 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.