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Carrollton, Georgia

8,545 Black residents · 32.0% of the place

Carrollton is a city in Georgia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 26,738 residents in all, 8,545 of them Black alone — 32.0% 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, 202026,738
Black residents (alone), 20208,545
Black share of the place, 202032.0%
Rank by Black population among Georgia places47 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 Carrollton grew — 7,773 in 2010 and 8,545 in 2020, a change of +9.9%. The Black share of Carrollton moved from 31.9% to 32.0% 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

Of the 675 places the Census Bureau counts in Georgia, Carrollton ranks 47 by Black population, with 8,545 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Carrollton within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Carrollton is a place of 26,738 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 Carrollton itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.