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Covington County, Mississippi
6,416 Black residents · 35.0% of the county · ranked 49 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
In Covington County, Mississippi, the 2020 Census counted 18,340 people, 6,416 of them Black alone. At 35.0%, Covington County's Black share stands against the state's 36.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 18,340 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 6,416 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 35.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 49 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
In 2010 Covington County counted 6,825 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 6,416. The population declined by 6.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Covington County moved from 34.9% to 35.0%.
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; Covington County holds 6,416 of it, rank 49 in the state's order. The county page for Covington County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Covington County, Mississippi, 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 Covington County page gives the frame they stand in: 18,340 residents in all, 6,416 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.