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Acadia Parish, Louisiana

9,989 Black residents · 17.3% of the county · ranked 31 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

In Acadia Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 57,576 people, 9,989 of them Black alone. At 17.3%, Acadia Parish's Black share stands against the state's 31.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Louisiana 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, 202057,576
Black residents (alone), 20209,989
Black share of the county, 202017.3%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties31 of 64

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 Acadia Parish counted 11,175 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 9,989. The population declined by 10.6% across the decade, and the Black share in Acadia Parish moved from 18.1% to 17.3%.

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 1.5 million is spread across 64 counties and county equivalents; Acadia Parish holds 9,989 of it, rank 31 in the state's order. The county page for Acadia Parish carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Acadia Parish, Louisiana, 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 Acadia Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 57,576 residents in all, 9,989 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.