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Roswell, Georgia

10,925 Black residents · 11.8% of the place

In the published counts, Roswell, Georgia, holds 10,925 Black residents among 92,833 people in all — a Black share of 11.8%, against the statewide 31.0%.

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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, 202092,833
Black residents (alone), 202010,925
Black share of the place, 202011.8%
Rank by Black population among Georgia places33 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 published record across two censuses for Roswell: 10,373 Black residents in 2010, 10,925 in 2020 — grew by 5.3% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 11.7% to 11.8%.

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

Roswell stands in the gazetteer as one of the 675 places the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Roswell's Black population of 10,925 ranks 33 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Roswell as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.

Institutions

Roswell is a place of 92,833 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 Roswell itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.