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Copiah County, Mississippi

14,342 Black residents · 50.6% of the county · ranked 25 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

The gazetteer enters Copiah County, Mississippi, on its published figures: a total population of 28,368 in 2020, with 14,342 Black residents counted alone — 50.6% 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 — Mississippi 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, 202028,368
Black residents (alone), 202014,342
Black share of the county, 202050.6%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties25 of 82

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 Copiah County: 14,983 Black residents in 2010, 14,342 in 2020 — declined by 4.3% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 50.9% to 50.6%.

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

The state's Black population of 1.1 million is spread across 82 counties and county equivalents; Copiah County holds 14,342 of it, rank 25 in the state's order. The county page for Copiah County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

Black Copiah County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Copiah County page holds the frame around them — 28,368 people in all, 14,342 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.