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East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

7,139 Black residents · 36.5% of the county · ranked 39 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

In East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 19,539 people, 7,139 of them Black alone. At 36.5%, East Feliciana Parish's Black share stands against the state's 31.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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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

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202019,539
Black residents (alone), 20207,139
Black share of the county, 202036.5%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties39 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

In 2010 East Feliciana Parish counted 9,108 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 7,139. The population declined by 21.6% across the decade, and the Black share in East Feliciana Parish moved from 44.9% to 36.5%.

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 1.5 million is spread across 64 counties and county equivalents; East Feliciana Parish holds 7,139 of it, rank 39 in the state's order. The county page for East Feliciana Parish carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

The institutions of Black East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 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 East Feliciana Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 19,539 residents in all, 7,139 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.