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Collin County, Texas

110,284 Black residents · 10.4% of the county · ranked 6 of 254 in Texas by Black population

The gazetteer enters Collin County, Texas, on its published figures: a total population of 1.1 million in 2020, with 110,284 Black residents counted alone — 10.4% 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 — Texas 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, 20201,064,465
Black residents (alone), 2020110,284
Black share of the county, 202010.4%
Rank by Black population among Texas counties6 of 254

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 Collin County: 66,387 Black residents in 2010, 110,284 in 2020 — grew by 66.1% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 8.5% to 10.4%.

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

Collin County is one of 254 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Together they hold the state's 3.6 million Black residents, and Collin County's 110,284 of them give it rank 6 of 254 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 Collin County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

Black Collin County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Collin County page holds the frame around them — 1.1 million people in all, 110,284 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.