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Craighead County, Arkansas

18,473 Black residents · 16.6% of the county · ranked 4 of 75 in Arkansas by Black population

Craighead County is a Arkansas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Craighead County held 111,231 residents in all, of whom 18,473 — 16.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

Black share of state population — Arkansas 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

Measure	Figure
Total population, 2020	111,231
Black residents (alone), 2020	18,473
Black share of the county, 2020	16.6%
Rank by Black population among Arkansas counties	4 of 75

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 Craighead County: 12,640 Black residents in 2010 and 18,473 in 2020. The population grew by 46.1%, and the Black share in Craighead County moved from 13.1% to 16.6%.

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

Craighead County is one of 75 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Arkansas. Together they hold the state's 453,783 Black residents, and Craighead County's 18,473 of them give it rank 4 of 75 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 Craighead County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Craighead County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Craighead County page is their frame: 111,231 residents, 18,473 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.