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Griffin, Georgia

12,453 Black residents · 53.0% of the place

Griffin is a city in Georgia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 23,478 residents in all, 12,453 of them Black alone — 53.0% 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, 202023,478
Black residents (alone), 202012,453
Black share of the place, 202053.0%
Rank by Black population among Georgia places29 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 Griffin grew — 12,331 in 2010 and 12,453 in 2020, a change of +1.0%. The Black share of Griffin moved from 52.2% to 53.0% 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

The gazetteer enters Griffin among Georgia's 675 counted places, at rank 29 by Black population on a count of 12,453. The figures for Griffin are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

The institutions of Griffin — its congregations, schools, and businesses — stand at the scale of its 23,478 people, and this gazetteer sets them within the county and state frames above. The entry itself fixes Griffin: name, state, people, and share, on the same terms as every place in the edition.