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Pender County, North Carolina

7,619 Black residents · 12.7% of the county · ranked 56 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

Pender County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Pender County held 60,203 residents in all, of whom 7,619 — 12.7% — 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	60,203
Black residents (alone), 2020	7,619
Black share of the county, 2020	12.7%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	56 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 Pender County: 9,269 Black residents in 2010 and 7,619 in 2020. The population declined by 17.8%, and the Black share in Pender County moved from 17.8% to 12.7%.

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

Pender County is one of 100 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Together they hold the state's 2.1 million Black residents, and Pender County's 7,619 of them give it rank 56 of 100 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Pender County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Pender 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 Pender County page gives the frame they stand in: 60,203 residents in all, 7,619 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.