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Ector County, Texas
8,031 Black residents · 4.9% of the county · ranked 41 of 254 in Texas by Black population
Ector County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Ector County held 165,171 residents in all, of whom 8,031 — 4.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 165,171 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,031 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 4.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 41 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 Ector County: 6,141 Black residents in 2010 and 8,031 in 2020. The population grew by 30.8%, and the Black share in Ector County moved from 4.5% to 4.9%.
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
Ector County is one of 254 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Together they hold the state's 3.6 million Black residents, and Ector County's 8,031 of them give it rank 41 of 254 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 Ector County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
Black Ector County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Ector County page holds the frame around them — 165,171 people in all, 8,031 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.