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Chickasaw County, Mississippi

7,436 Black residents · 43.5% of the county · ranked 44 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

The gazetteer enters Chickasaw County, Mississippi, on its published figures: a total population of 17,106 in 2020, with 7,436 Black residents counted alone — 43.5% 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 — Mississippi 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, 202017,106
Black residents (alone), 20207,436
Black share of the county, 202043.5%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties44 of 82

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 Chickasaw County: 7,319 Black residents in 2010, 7,436 in 2020 — grew by 1.6% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 42.1% to 43.5%.

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

Within Mississippi, the Census Bureau counts 82 counties and county equivalents, Chickasaw County among them; it stands 44 by Black population, with 7,436 Black residents of the state's 1.1 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 Chickasaw County, Mississippi, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Chickasaw County, Mississippi, 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 Chickasaw County page gives the frame they stand in: 17,106 residents in all, 7,436 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.