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Polk County, Georgia

5,212 Black residents · 12.2% of the county · ranked 80 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

The gazetteer enters Polk County, Georgia, on its published figures: a total population of 42,853 in 2020, with 5,212 Black residents counted alone — 12.2% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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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, 202042,853
Black residents (alone), 20205,212
Black share of the county, 202012.2%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties80 of 159

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 Polk County: 5,190 Black residents in 2010, 5,212 in 2020 — grew by 0.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 12.5% to 12.2%.

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

Polk County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Polk County's 5,212 of them give it rank 80 of 159 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Polk County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Polk County, Georgia, are recorded in this gazetteer through its place entries — the towns and communities inside the county's borders, each entered on its own published count. Read with those entries, the Polk County page gives the frame they stand in: 42,853 residents in all, 5,212 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.