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Forrest County, Mississippi

28,330 Black residents · 36.2% of the county · ranked 9 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

Forrest County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Forrest County held 78,158 residents in all, of whom 28,330 — 36.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Mississippi 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, 202078,158
Black residents (alone), 202028,330
Black share of the county, 202036.2%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties9 of 82

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 Forrest County: 27,082 Black residents in 2010 and 28,330 in 2020. The population grew by 4.6%, and the Black share in Forrest County moved from 36.1% to 36.2%.

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

Forrest County is one of 82 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Mississippi. Together they hold the state's 1.1 million Black residents, and Forrest County's 28,330 of them give it rank 9 of 82 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 Forrest County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Forrest County — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Forrest County page is their frame: 78,158 residents, 28,330 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.