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Macon-Bibb County, Georgia
85,885 Black residents · 54.6% of the place
Macon-Bibb County is a community in Georgia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 157,346 residents in all, 85,885 of them Black alone — 54.6% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 157,346 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 85,885 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 54.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia places | 5 of 675 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race).
The Setting
Macon-Bibb County is counted by the Census Bureau as a community of Georgia, one of 675 places in the state file. Within that company its Black population of 85,885 stands 5 by size, and its Black share of 54.6% stands against the state's 31.0% and against the shares of the state's counties recorded in this edition. No 2010 figure is carried for Macon-Bibb County in the published redistricting file under its present bounds, so this entry opens with the 2020 count and the trend line begins there.
The Record
Macon-Bibb County stands in the gazetteer as one of the 675 places the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Macon-Bibb County's Black population of 85,885 ranks 5 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Macon-Bibb County as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Macon-Bibb County is a place of 157,346 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 Macon-Bibb County itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.