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Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

6,503 Black residents · 8.0% of the county · ranked 10 of 115 in Missouri by Black population

Cape Girardeau County is a Missouri county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Cape Girardeau County held 81,710 residents in all, of whom 6,503 — 8.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Missouri 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, 202081,710
Black residents (alone), 20206,503
Black share of the county, 20208.0%
Rank by Black population among Missouri counties10 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 Cape Girardeau County: 5,330 Black residents in 2010 and 6,503 in 2020. The population grew by 22.0%, and the Black share in Cape Girardeau County moved from 7.0% to 8.0%.

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

Cape Girardeau County is one of 115 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Missouri. Together they hold the state's 699,840 Black residents, and Cape Girardeau County's 6,503 of them give it rank 10 of 115 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 Cape Girardeau County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

Black Cape Girardeau County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Cape Girardeau County page holds the frame around them — 81,710 people in all, 6,503 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.