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East Carroll Parish, Louisiana

5,188 Black residents · 69.6% of the county · ranked 47 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

East Carroll Parish is a Louisiana county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, East Carroll Parish held 7,459 residents in all, of whom 5,188 — 69.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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	7,459
Black residents (alone), 2020	5,188
Black share of the county, 2020	69.6%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties	47 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 two-census record for East Carroll Parish: 5,356 Black residents in 2010 and 5,188 in 2020. The population declined by 3.1%, and the Black share in East Carroll Parish moved from 69.0% to 69.6%.

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

East Carroll 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 Carroll Parish's 5,188 of them give it rank 47 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 Carroll Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

Black East Carroll Parish's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The East Carroll Parish page holds the frame around them — 7,459 people in all, 5,188 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.