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Northampton County, North Carolina

9,689 Black residents · 55.5% of the county · ranked 50 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

Northampton County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Northampton County held 17,471 residents in all, of whom 9,689 — 55.5% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — North Carolina 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	17,471
Black residents (alone), 2020	9,689
Black share of the county, 2020	55.5%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	50 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

The two-census record for Northampton County: 12,895 Black residents in 2010 and 9,689 in 2020. The population declined by 24.9%, and the Black share in Northampton County moved from 58.4% to 55.5%.

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

Within North Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 100 counties and county equivalents, Northampton County among them; it stands 50 by Black population, with 9,689 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 Northampton County, North Carolina, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Northampton 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 Northampton County page gives the frame they stand in: 17,471 residents in all, 9,689 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.