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Collier County, Florida

23,349 Black residents · 6.2% of the county · ranked 24 of 67 in Florida by Black population

The gazetteer enters Collier County, Florida, on its published figures: a total population of 375,752 in 2020, with 23,349 Black residents counted alone — 6.2% 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 — Florida 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, 2020375,752
Black residents (alone), 202023,349
Black share of the county, 20206.2%
Rank by Black population among Florida counties24 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 published record across two censuses for Collier County: 21,087 Black residents in 2010, 23,349 in 2020 — grew by 10.7% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 6.6% to 6.2%.

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 Florida, the Census Bureau counts 67 counties and county equivalents, Collier County among them; it stands 24 by Black population, with 23,349 Black residents of the state's 3.2 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 Collier County, Florida, exactly as published.

Institutions

Black Collier County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Collier County page holds the frame around them — 375,752 people in all, 23,349 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.