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Camp Springs, Maryland
17,005 Black residents · 74.8% of the place
Camp Springs is a census-designated place in Maryland, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 22,734 residents in all, 17,005 of them Black alone — 74.8% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 22,734 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 17,005 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 74.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Maryland places | 16 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
Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Camp Springs grew — 15,051 in 2010 and 17,005 in 2020, a change of +13.0%. The Black share of Camp Springs moved from 78.8% to 74.8% 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 Camp Springs among Maryland's 536 counted places, at rank 16 by Black population on a count of 17,005. The figures for Camp Springs are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Camp Springs is a place of 22,734 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 Camp Springs itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.