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Vance County, North Carolina
21,237 Black residents · 49.9% of the county · ranked 25 of 100 in North Carolina by Black population
Vance County is a North Carolina county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Vance County held 42,578 residents in all, of whom 21,237 — 49.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 42,578 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 21,237 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 49.9% |
| Rank by Black population among North Carolina counties | 25 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 Vance County: 22,645 Black residents in 2010 and 21,237 in 2020. The population declined by 6.2%, and the Black share in Vance County moved from 49.9% to 49.9%.
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
Vance 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 Vance County's 21,237 of them give it rank 25 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 Vance County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Vance County, North 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 Vance County page gives the frame they stand in: 42,578 residents in all, 21,237 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.