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Putnam County, Florida
11,444 Black residents · 15.6% of the county · ranked 32 of 67 in Florida by Black population
Putnam County is a Florida county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Putnam County held 73,321 residents in all, of whom 11,444 — 15.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 73,321 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 11,444 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 15.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 32 of 67 |
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 two-census record for Putnam County: 12,030 Black residents in 2010 and 11,444 in 2020. The population declined by 4.9%, and the Black share in Putnam County moved from 16.2% to 15.6%.
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
Within Florida, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Putnam County among them; it stands 32 by Black population, with 11,444 Black residents of the state's 3.2 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Putnam County, Florida, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Putnam County, Florida, 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 Putnam County page gives the frame they stand in: 73,321 residents in all, 11,444 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.