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Rockingham County, North Carolina
16,789 Black residents · 18.4% of the county · ranked 29 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population
Rockingham County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Rockingham County held 91,096 residents in all, of whom 16,789 — 18.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 91,096 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 16,789 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 18.4% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties | 29 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 Rockingham County: 17,655 Black residents in 2010 and 16,789 in 2020. The population declined by 4.9%, and the Black share in Rockingham County moved from 18.9% to 18.4%.
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 North Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 100 counties and county equivalents, Rockingham County among them; it stands 29 by Black population, with 16,789 Black residents of the state's 2.1 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 Rockingham County, North Carolina, exactly as published.
Institutions
Black Rockingham County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Rockingham County page holds the frame around them — 91,096 people in all, 16,789 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.