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Dallas County, Texas
574,183 Black residents · 22.0% of the county · ranked 2 of 254 in Texas by Black population
Dallas County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Dallas County held 2.6 million residents in all, of whom 574,183 — 22.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 2,613,539 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 574,183 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 22.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 2 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 Dallas County: 528,200 Black residents in 2010 and 574,183 in 2020. The population grew by 8.7%, and the Black share in Dallas County moved from 22.3% to 22.0%.
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
Within Texas, the Census Bureau counts 254 counties and county equivalents, Dallas County among them; it stands 2 by Black population, with 574,183 Black residents of the state's 3.6 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Dallas County, Texas, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Dallas County, Texas, 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 Dallas County page gives the frame they stand in: 2.6 million residents in all, 574,183 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.