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Coryell County, Texas
12,356 Black residents · 14.9% of the county · ranked 31 of 254 in Texas by Black population
Coryell County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Coryell County held 83,093 residents in all, of whom 12,356 — 14.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 83,093 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 12,356 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 14.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 31 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 two-census record for Coryell County: 11,943 Black residents in 2010 and 12,356 in 2020. The population grew by 3.5%, and the Black share in Coryell County moved from 15.8% to 14.9%.
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
Coryell 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 Coryell County's 12,356 of them give it rank 31 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 Coryell County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
Black Coryell County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Coryell County page holds the frame around them — 83,093 people in all, 12,356 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.