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Paulding County, Georgia
37,353 Black residents · 22.1% of the county · ranked 17 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
Paulding County is a Georgia county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Paulding County held 168,661 residents in all, of whom 37,353 — 22.1% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 168,661 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 37,353 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 22.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 17 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 two-census record for Paulding County: 24,321 Black residents in 2010 and 37,353 in 2020. The population grew by 53.6%, and the Black share in Paulding County moved from 17.1% to 22.1%.
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; Paulding County holds 37,353 of it, rank 17 in the state's order. The county page for Paulding County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Paulding County, Georgia, 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 Paulding County page gives the frame they stand in: 168,661 residents in all, 37,353 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.