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Nash County, North Carolina
36,958 Black residents · 38.9% of the county · ranked 10 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population
In Nash County, North Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 94,970 people, 36,958 of them Black alone. At 38.9%, Nash County's Black share stands against the state's 20.5% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 94,970 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 36,958 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 38.9% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties | 10 of 100 |
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 Nash County counted 35,650 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 36,958. The population grew by 3.7% across the decade, and the Black share in Nash County moved from 37.2% to 38.9%.
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
Within North Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 100 counties and county equivalents, Nash County among them; it stands 10 by Black population, with 36,958 Black residents of the state's 2.1 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 Nash County, North Carolina, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Nash County, North Carolina, 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 Nash County page gives the frame they stand in: 94,970 residents in all, 36,958 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.