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Attala County, Mississippi

7,678 Black residents · 42.9% of the county · ranked 40 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

Attala County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Attala County held 17,889 residents in all, of whom 7,678 — 42.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — Mississippi 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	17,889
Black residents (alone), 2020	7,678
Black share of the county, 2020	42.9%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties	40 of 82

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 Attala County: 8,208 Black residents in 2010 and 7,678 in 2020. The population declined by 6.5%, and the Black share in Attala County moved from 42.0% to 42.9%.

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

Within Mississippi, the Census Bureau counts 82 counties and county equivalents, Attala County among them; it stands 40 by Black population, with 7,678 Black residents of the state's 1.1 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Attala County, Mississippi, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Attala County, Mississippi, 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 Attala County page gives the frame they stand in: 17,889 residents in all, 7,678 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.