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Choctaw County, Alabama

5,232 Black residents · 41.3% of the county · ranked 42 of 67 in Alabama by Black population

Choctaw County is a Alabama county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Choctaw County held 12,665 residents in all, of whom 5,232 — 41.3% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Alabama 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, 202012,665
Black residents (alone), 20205,232
Black share of the county, 202041.3%
Rank by Black population among Alabama counties42 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 two-census record for Choctaw County: 6,012 Black residents in 2010 and 5,232 in 2020. The population declined by 13.0%, and the Black share in Choctaw County moved from 43.4% to 41.3%.

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 Alabama, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Choctaw County among them; it stands 42 by Black population, with 5,232 Black residents of the state's 1.3 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 Choctaw County, Alabama, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Choctaw County, Alabama, 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 Choctaw County page gives the frame they stand in: 12,665 residents in all, 5,232 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.