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Dundalk, Maryland

9,763 Black residents · 14.4% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 67,796 people in Dundalk, Maryland, and 9,763 of them — 14.4% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Dundalk is built on.

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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, 202067,796
Black residents (alone), 20209,763
Black share of the place, 202014.4%
Rank by Black population among Maryland places45 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 two-census record for Dundalk: 7,014 Black residents in 2010 and 9,763 in 2020. The population grew by 39.2%, and the Black share in Dundalk moved from 11.0% to 14.4%.

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 536 places the Census Bureau counts in Maryland, Dundalk ranks 45 by Black population, with 9,763 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Dundalk within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Dundalk is a place of 67,796 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 Dundalk itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.