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Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

10,706 Black residents · 27.0% of the county · ranked 30 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

In Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 39,693 people, 10,706 of them Black alone. At 27.0%, Avoyelles Parish's Black share stands against the state's 31.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	39,693
Black residents (alone), 2020	10,706
Black share of the county, 2020	27.0%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties	30 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 Avoyelles Parish counted 12,398 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 10,706. The population declined by 13.6% across the decade, and the Black share in Avoyelles Parish moved from 29.5% 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

The state's Black population of 1.5 million is spread across 64 counties and county equivalents; Avoyelles Parish holds 10,706 of it, rank 30 in the state's order. The county page for Avoyelles Parish carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

Black Avoyelles Parish's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Avoyelles Parish page holds the frame around them — 39,693 people in all, 10,706 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.