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Bradford County, Florida

5,478 Black residents · 19.4% of the county · ranked 41 of 67 in Florida by Black population

The gazetteer enters Bradford County, Florida, on its published figures: a total population of 28,303 in 2020, with 5,478 Black residents counted alone — 19.4% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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Black share of state population — Florida 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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202028,303
Black residents (alone), 20205,478
Black share of the county, 202019.4%
Rank by Black population among Florida counties41 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 Bradford County: 5,823 Black residents in 2010, 5,478 in 2020 — declined by 5.9% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 20.4% to 19.4%.

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

Bradford County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Together they hold the state's 3.2 million Black residents, and Bradford County's 5,478 of them give it rank 41 of 67 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Bradford County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Bradford County, Florida, 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 Bradford County page gives the frame they stand in: 28,303 residents in all, 5,478 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.