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Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance), Georgia

31,420 Black residents · 24.7% of the place

Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) is a community in Georgia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 127,315 residents in all, 31,420 of them Black alone — 24.7% of the place.

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Black share of state population — Georgia 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, 2020127,315
Black residents (alone), 202031,420
Black share of the place, 202024.7%
Rank by Black population among Georgia places10 of 675

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

Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) grew — 30,733 in 2010 and 31,420 in 2020, a change of +2.2%. The Black share of Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) moved from 26.6% to 24.7% over the same span.

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 Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) among Georgia's 675 counted places, at rank 10 by Black population on a count of 31,420. The figures for Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

The institutions of Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance) — its congregations, schools, and businesses — stand at the scale of its 127,315 people, and this gazetteer sets them within the county and state frames above. The entry itself fixes Athens-Clarke County unified government (balance): name, state, people, and share, on the same terms as every place in the edition.