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Caddo Parish, Louisiana

115,298 Black residents · 48.5% of the county · ranked 4 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

In Caddo Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 237,848 people, 115,298 of them Black alone. At 48.5%, Caddo Parish's Black share stands against the state's 31.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 2020237,848
Black residents (alone), 2020115,298
Black share of the county, 202048.5%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties4 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 Caddo Parish counted 120,264 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 115,298. The population declined by 4.1% across the decade, and the Black share in Caddo Parish moved from 47.2% to 48.5%.

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; Caddo Parish holds 115,298 of it, rank 4 in the state's order. The county page for Caddo Parish carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

Black Caddo Parish's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Caddo Parish page holds the frame around them — 237,848 people in all, 115,298 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.