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Muscogee County, Georgia

96,163 Black residents · 46.5% of the county · ranked 9 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Muscogee County, Georgia, on its published figures: a total population of 206,922 in 2020, with 96,163 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	206,922
Black residents (alone), 2020	96,163
Black share of the county, 2020	46.5%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties	9 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 Muscogee County: 86,403 Black residents in 2010, 96,163 in 2020 — grew by 11.3% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 45.5% 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

The state's Black population of 3.3 million is spread across 159 counties and county equivalents; Muscogee County holds 96,163 of it, rank 9 in the state's order. The county page for Muscogee County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

Black Muscogee County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Muscogee County page holds the frame around them — 206,922 people in all, 96,163 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.