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Rockdale County, Georgia
54,409 Black residents · 58.1% of the county · ranked 13 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
In Rockdale County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 93,570 people, 54,409 of them Black alone. At 58.1%, Rockdale County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 93,570 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 54,409 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 58.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 13 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
In 2010 Rockdale County counted 39,559 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 54,409. The population grew by 37.5% across the decade, and the Black share in Rockdale County moved from 46.4% to 58.1%.
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
The state's Black population of 3.3 million is spread across 159 counties and county equivalents; Rockdale County holds 54,409 of it, rank 13 in the state's order. The county page for Rockdale County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Rockdale 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 Rockdale County page gives the frame they stand in: 93,570 residents in all, 54,409 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.