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Faulkner County, Arkansas
14,384 Black residents · 11.6% of the county · ranked 5 of 75 in Arkansas by Black population
Faulkner County is a Arkansas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Faulkner County held 123,498 residents in all, of whom 14,384 — 11.6% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 123,498 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 14,384 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 11.6% |
| Rank by Black population among Arkansas counties | 5 of 75 |
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 Faulkner County: 11,568 Black residents in 2010 and 14,384 in 2020. The population grew by 24.3%, and the Black share in Faulkner County moved from 10.2% to 11.6%.
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
The state's Black population of 453,783 is spread across 75 counties and county equivalents; Faulkner County holds 14,384 of it, rank 5 in the state's order. The county page for Faulkner County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Faulkner County, Arkansas, 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 Faulkner County page gives the frame they stand in: 123,498 residents in all, 14,384 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.