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Dentsville, South Carolina

9,936 Black residents · 68.9% of the place

Dentsville is a census-designated place in South Carolina, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 14,431 residents in all, 9,936 of them Black alone — 68.9% of the place.

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Black share of state population — South Carolina 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, 202014,431
Black residents (alone), 20209,936
Black share of the place, 202068.9%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina places13 of 475

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 Dentsville grew — 9,742 in 2010 and 9,936 in 2020, a change of +2.0%. The Black share of Dentsville moved from 69.3% to 68.9% 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

Dentsville stands in the gazetteer as one of the 475 places the Census Bureau counts in South Carolina. Dentsville's Black population of 9,936 ranks 13 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Dentsville as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

The institutions of Dentsville — its congregations, schools, and businesses — stand at the scale of its 14,431 people, and this gazetteer sets them within the county and state frames above. The entry itself fixes Dentsville: name, state, people, and share, on the same terms as every place in the edition.