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Redan, Georgia

28,571 Black residents · 90.0% of the place

Redan is a census-designated place in Georgia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 31,749 residents in all, 28,571 of them Black alone — 90.0% 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, 202031,749
Black residents (alone), 202028,571
Black share of the place, 202090.0%
Rank by Black population among Georgia places13 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 Redan declined — 30,992 in 2010 and 28,571 in 2020, a change of -7.8%. The Black share of Redan moved from 93.9% to 90.0% 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 Redan among Georgia's 675 counted places, at rank 13 by Black population on a count of 28,571. The figures for Redan are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

Redan is a place of 31,749 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 Redan itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.