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Accokeek, Maryland

9,449 Black residents · 67.8% of the place

In the published counts, Accokeek, Maryland, holds 9,449 Black residents among 13,927 people in all — a Black share of 67.8%, against the statewide 29.5%.

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Black share of state population — Maryland 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, 202013,927
Black residents (alone), 20209,449
Black share of the place, 202067.8%
Rank by Black population among Maryland places49 of 536

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 Accokeek: 6,811 Black residents in 2010, 9,449 in 2020 — grew by 38.7% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 64.4% to 67.8%.

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 gazetteer enters Accokeek among Maryland's 536 counted places, at rank 49 by Black population on a count of 9,449. The figures for Accokeek are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

Accokeek is a place of 13,927 people, and it carries its institutions at its own scale — congregations, schools, and businesses recorded in the federal counts as counts, and in this gazetteer as part of the county and state frames above this entry. The entry's work is the fixing of Accokeek itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.