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Evangeline Parish, Louisiana
8,664 Black residents · 26.8% of the county · ranked 34 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population
In Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 32,350 people, 8,664 of them Black alone. At 26.8%, Evangeline Parish's Black share stands against the state's 31.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 32,350 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,664 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 26.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties | 34 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 Evangeline Parish counted 9,632 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 8,664. The population declined by 10.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Evangeline Parish moved from 28.3% to 26.8%.
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; Evangeline Parish holds 8,664 of it, rank 34 in the state's order. The county page for Evangeline Parish carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Evangeline 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 Evangeline Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 32,350 residents in all, 8,664 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.