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York County, South Carolina

51,898 Black residents · 18.4% of the county · ranked 7 of 46 in South Carolina by Black population

The gazetteer enters York County, South Carolina, on its published figures: a total population of 282,090 in 2020, with 51,898 Black residents counted alone — 18.4% 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	282,090
Black residents (alone), 2020	51,898
Black share of the county, 2020	18.4%
Rank by Black population among South Carolina counties	7 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 York County: 43,003 Black residents in 2010, 51,898 in 2020 — grew by 20.7% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 19.0% to 18.4%.

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

York County is one of 46 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in South Carolina. Together they hold the state's 1.3 million Black residents, and York County's 51,898 of them give it rank 7 of 46 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 York County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black York County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The York County page is their frame: 282,090 residents, 51,898 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.