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Pickens County, Alabama

7,489 Black residents · 39.2% of the county · ranked 36 of 67 in Alabama by Black population

The gazetteer enters Pickens County, Alabama, on its published figures: a total population of 19,123 in 2020, with 7,489 Black residents counted alone — 39.2% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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Black share of state population — Alabama 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202019,123
Black residents (alone), 20207,489
Black share of the county, 202039.2%
Rank by Black population among Alabama counties36 of 67

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 published record across two censuses for Pickens County: 8,211 Black residents in 2010, 7,489 in 2020 — declined by 8.8% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 41.6% to 39.2%.

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

Pickens County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Alabama. Together they hold the state's 1.3 million Black residents, and Pickens County's 7,489 of them give it rank 36 of 67 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 Pickens County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Pickens County, Alabama, 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 Pickens County page gives the frame they stand in: 19,123 residents in all, 7,489 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.