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Wilson, North Carolina
23,112 Black residents · 48.3% of the place
Wilson is a city in North Carolina, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 47,851 residents in all, 23,112 of them Black alone — 48.3% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 47,851 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 23,112 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 48.3% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina places | 12 of 776 |
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 Wilson declined — 23,530 in 2010 and 23,112 in 2020, a change of -1.8%. The Black share of Wilson moved from 47.9% to 48.3% 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
Wilson stands in the gazetteer as one of the 776 places the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Wilson's Black population of 23,112 ranks 12 among them. The figures on this page are the published redistricting counts for Wilson as the Bureau bounds it, reproduced as released and cited to their table.
Institutions
Wilson is a place of 47,851 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 Wilson itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.