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East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

206,681 Black residents · 45.2% of the county · ranked 2 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

The gazetteer enters East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on its published figures: a total population of 456,781 in 2020, with 206,681 Black residents counted alone — 45.2% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

Black share of state population — Louisiana 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	456,781
Black residents (alone), 2020	206,681
Black share of the county, 2020	45.2%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties	2 of 64

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 East Baton Rouge Parish: 199,505 Black residents in 2010, 206,681 in 2020 — grew by 3.6% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 45.3% to 45.2%.

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

East Baton Rouge Parish is one of 64 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Louisiana. Together they hold the state's 1.5 million Black residents, and East Baton Rouge Parish's 206,681 of them give it rank 2 of 64 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 East Baton Rouge Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black East Baton Rouge Parish — 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 East Baton Rouge Parish page is their frame: 456,781 residents, 206,681 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.