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Union County, South Carolina

8,485 Black residents · 31.1% of the county · ranked 38 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters Union County, South Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 27,244 in 2020, with 8,485 Black residents counted alone — 31.1% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — South 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	27,244
Black residents (alone), 2020	8,485
Black share of the county, 2020	31.1%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	38 of 46

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 Union County: 9,066 Black residents in 2010, 8,485 in 2020 — declined by 6.4% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 31.3% to 31.1%.

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

Within South Carolina, the Census Bureau counts 46 counties and county equivalents, Union County among them; it stands 38 by Black population, with 8,485 Black residents of the state's 1.3 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 Union County, South Carolina, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Union County, South Carolina, 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 Union County page gives the frame they stand in: 27,244 residents in all, 8,485 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.