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Richmond County, North Carolina

12,881 Black residents · 30.0% of the county · ranked 39 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

Richmond County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Richmond County held 42,946 residents in all, of whom 12,881 — 30.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — North Carolina 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	42,946
Black residents (alone), 2020	12,881
Black share of the county, 2020	30.0%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	39 of 100

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 Richmond County: 14,269 Black residents in 2010 and 12,881 in 2020. The population declined by 9.7%, and the Black share in Richmond County moved from 30.6% to 30.0%.

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

Richmond County is one of 100 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in North Carolina. Together they hold the state's 2.1 million Black residents, and Richmond County's 12,881 of them give it rank 39 of 100 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 Richmond County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Richmond County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Richmond County page is their frame: 42,946 residents, 12,881 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.