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Coffee County, Alabama
8,760 Black residents · 16.4% of the county · ranked 31 of 67 in Alabama by Black population
Coffee County is a Alabama county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Coffee County held 53,465 residents in all, of whom 8,760 — 16.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 53,465 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,760 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 16.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Alabama counties | 31 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 Coffee County: 8,359 Black residents in 2010 and 8,760 in 2020. The population grew by 4.8%, and the Black share in Coffee County moved from 16.7% to 16.4%.
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
Within Alabama, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Coffee County among them; it stands 31 by Black population, with 8,760 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 Coffee County, Alabama, exactly as published.
Institutions
Black Coffee County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Coffee County page holds the frame around them — 53,465 people in all, 8,760 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.