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Rock Hill, South Carolina

28,830 Black residents · 38.8% of the place

Rock Hill is a city in South Carolina, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 74,372 residents in all, 28,830 of them Black alone — 38.8% of the place.

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Black share of state population — South Carolina 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, 202074,372
Black residents (alone), 202028,830
Black share of the place, 202038.8%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina places3 of 475

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 Rock Hill grew — 25,348 in 2010 and 28,830 in 2020, a change of +13.7%. The Black share of Rock Hill moved from 38.3% to 38.8% 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 Rock Hill among South Carolina's 475 counted places, at rank 3 by Black population on a count of 28,830. The figures for Rock Hill are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.

Institutions

The institutions of Rock Hill — its congregations, schools, and businesses — stand at the scale of its 74,372 people, and this gazetteer sets them within the county and state frames above. The entry itself fixes Rock Hill: name, state, people, and share, on the same terms as every place in the edition.