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Stanly County, North Carolina

7,079 Black residents · 11.3% of the county · ranked 58 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters Stanly County, North Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 62,504 in 2020, with 7,079 Black residents counted alone — 11.3% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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	62,504
Black residents (alone), 2020	7,079
Black share of the county, 2020	11.3%
Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties	58 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 published record across two censuses for Stanly County: 6,630 Black residents in 2010, 7,079 in 2020 — grew by 6.8% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 10.9% to 11.3%.

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

Stanly 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 Stanly County's 7,079 of them give it rank 58 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 Stanly County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Stanly 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 Stanly County page is their frame: 62,504 residents, 7,079 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.