United States › Maryland › Waldorf
Waldorf, Maryland
51,949 Black residents · 63.8% of the place
Waldorf is a census-designated place in Maryland, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 81,410 residents in all, 51,949 of them Black alone — 63.8% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 81,410 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 51,949 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 63.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Maryland places | 2 of 536 |
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 Waldorf grew — 36,152 in 2010 and 51,949 in 2020, a change of +43.7%. The Black share of Waldorf moved from 53.4% to 63.8% 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
Waldorf stands in the gazetteer as one of the 536 places the Census Bureau counts in Maryland. Waldorf's Black population of 51,949 ranks 2 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Waldorf as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Waldorf is a place of 81,410 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 Waldorf itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.