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Montgomery County, Maryland

197,077 Black residents · 18.6% of the county · ranked 4 of 24 in Maryland by Black population

The gazetteer enters Montgomery County, Maryland, on its published figures: a total population of 1.1 million in 2020, with 197,077 Black residents counted alone — 18.6% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — Maryland 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	1,062,061
Black residents (alone), 2020	197,077
Black share of the county, 2020	18.6%
Rank by Black population among Maryland counties	4 of 24

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 Montgomery County: 167,315 Black residents in 2010, 197,077 in 2020 — grew by 17.8% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 17.2% to 18.6%.

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

Montgomery County is one of 24 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Maryland. Together they hold the state's 1.8 million Black residents, and Montgomery County's 197,077 of them give it rank 4 of 24 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 Montgomery County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Montgomery County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Montgomery County page is their frame: 1.1 million residents, 197,077 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.