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Comanche County, Oklahoma

19,802 Black residents · 16.3% of the county · ranked 3 of 77 in Oklahoma by Black population

In Comanche County, Oklahoma, the 2020 Census counted 121,125 people, 19,802 of them Black alone. At 16.3%, Comanche County's Black share stands against the state's 7.3% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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Black share of state population — Oklahoma 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, 2020121,125
Black residents (alone), 202019,802
Black share of the county, 202016.3%
Rank by Black population among Oklahoma counties3 of 77

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

In 2010 Comanche County counted 21,669 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 19,802. The population declined by 8.6% across the decade, and the Black share in Comanche County moved from 17.5% to 16.3%.

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

Comanche County is one of 77 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Oklahoma. Together they hold the state's 289,961 Black residents, and Comanche County's 19,802 of them give it rank 3 of 77 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 Comanche County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Comanche County, Oklahoma, 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 Comanche County page gives the frame they stand in: 121,125 residents in all, 19,802 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.