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Barbour County, Alabama
11,933 Black residents · 47.3% of the county · ranked 21 of 67 in Alabama by Black population
The gazetteer enters Barbour County, Alabama, on its published figures: a total population of 25,223 in 2020, with 11,933 Black residents counted alone — 47.3% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 25,223 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 11,933 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 47.3% |
| Rank by Black population among Alabama counties | 21 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 published record across two censuses for Barbour County: 12,875 Black residents in 2010, 11,933 in 2020 — declined by 7.3% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 46.9% to 47.3%.
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
Within Alabama, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Barbour County among them; it stands 21 by Black population, with 11,933 Black residents of the state's 1.3 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 Barbour County, Alabama, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Barbour County, Alabama, 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 Barbour County page gives the frame they stand in: 25,223 residents in all, 11,933 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.