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Wicomico County, Maryland

27,990 Black residents · 27.0% of the county · ranked 9 of 24 in Maryland by Black population

Wicomico County is a Maryland county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Wicomico County held 103,588 residents in all, of whom 27,990 — 27.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Maryland 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, 2020103,588
Black residents (alone), 202027,990
Black share of the county, 202027.0%
Rank by Black population among Maryland counties9 of 24

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 Wicomico County: 23,873 Black residents in 2010 and 27,990 in 2020. The population grew by 17.2%, and the Black share in Wicomico County moved from 24.2% to 27.0%.

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

Wicomico County is one of 24 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Maryland. Together they hold the state's 1.8 million Black residents, and Wicomico County's 27,990 of them give it rank 9 of 24 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 Wicomico County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Wicomico County, Maryland, 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 Wicomico County page gives the frame they stand in: 103,588 residents in all, 27,990 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.