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Alachua County, Florida
52,156 Black residents · 18.7% of the county · ranked 16 of 67 in Florida by Black population
Alachua County is a Florida county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Alachua County held 278,468 residents in all, of whom 52,156 — 18.7% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 278,468 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 52,156 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 18.7% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 16 of 67 |
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 Alachua County: 50,282 Black residents in 2010 and 52,156 in 2020. The population grew by 3.7%, and the Black share in Alachua County moved from 20.3% to 18.7%.
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 3.2 million is spread across 67 counties and county equivalents; Alachua County holds 52,156 of it, rank 16 in the state's order. The county page for Alachua County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
Black Alachua County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Alachua County page holds the frame around them — 278,468 people in all, 52,156 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.