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Pasquotank County, North Carolina
14,478 Black residents · 35.7% of the county · ranked 36 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population
In Pasquotank County, North Carolina, the 2020 Census counted 40,568 people, 14,478 of them Black alone. At 35.7%, Pasquotank 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 | 40,568 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 14,478 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 35.7% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties | 36 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 Pasquotank County counted 15,355 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 14,478. The population declined by 5.7% across the decade, and the Black share in Pasquotank County moved from 37.8% to 35.7%.
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 2.1 million is spread across 100 counties and county equivalents; Pasquotank County holds 14,478 of it, rank 36 in the state's order. The county page for Pasquotank County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Pasquotank 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 Pasquotank County page gives the frame they stand in: 40,568 residents in all, 14,478 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.