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Lawrenceville, Georgia

10,761 Black residents · 35.1% of the place

The 2020 Census counted 30,629 people in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and 10,761 of them — 35.1% — were Black alone. That count, and the share it makes, are the facts this entry for Lawrenceville is built on.

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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, 202030,629
Black residents (alone), 202010,761
Black share of the place, 202035.1%
Rank by Black population among Georgia places34 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

The two-census record for Lawrenceville: 9,134 Black residents in 2010 and 10,761 in 2020. The population grew by 17.8%, and the Black share in Lawrenceville moved from 32.0% to 35.1%.

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, Lawrenceville ranks 34 by Black population, with 10,761 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Lawrenceville within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Lawrenceville is a place of 30,629 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 Lawrenceville itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.