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Thomas County, Georgia

16,343 Black residents · 35.7% of the county · ranked 32 of 159 in Georgia by Black population

In Thomas County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 45,798 people, 16,343 of them Black alone. At 35.7%, Thomas County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Georgia 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202045,798
Black residents (alone), 202016,343
Black share of the county, 202035.7%
Rank by Black population among Georgia counties32 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 Thomas County counted 16,497 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 16,343. The population declined by 0.9% across the decade, and the Black share in Thomas County moved from 36.9% to 35.7%.

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

Thomas County is one of 159 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Georgia. Together they hold the state's 3.3 million Black residents, and Thomas County's 16,343 of them give it rank 32 of 159 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 Thomas County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Thomas 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 Thomas County page gives the frame they stand in: 45,798 residents in all, 16,343 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.