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Boone County, Missouri
18,100 Black residents · 9.9% of the county · ranked 6 of 115 in Missouri by Black population
Boone County is a Missouri county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Boone County held 183,610 residents in all, of whom 18,100 — 9.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 183,610 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 18,100 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 9.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Missouri counties | 6 of 115 |
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 Boone County: 15,111 Black residents in 2010 and 18,100 in 2020. The population grew by 19.8%, and the Black share in Boone County moved from 9.3% to 9.9%.
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
The state's Black population of 699,840 is spread across 115 counties and county equivalents; Boone County holds 18,100 of it, rank 6 in the state's order. The county page for Boone County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Boone County, Missouri, 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 Boone County page gives the frame they stand in: 183,610 residents in all, 18,100 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.