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Wayne County, Georgia
5,978 Black residents · 19.8% of the county · ranked 67 of 159 in Georgia by Black population
In Wayne County, Georgia, the 2020 Census counted 30,144 people, 5,978 of them Black alone. At 19.8%, Wayne County's Black share stands against the state's 31.0% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 30,144 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 5,978 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 19.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Georgia counties | 67 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 Wayne County counted 5,996 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 5,978. The population declined by 0.3% across the decade, and the Black share in Wayne County moved from 19.9% to 19.8%.
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
The state's Black population of 3.3 million is spread across 159 counties and county equivalents; Wayne County holds 5,978 of it, rank 67 in the state's order. The county page for Wayne County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Wayne 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 Wayne County page gives the frame they stand in: 30,144 residents in all, 5,978 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.