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Fort Bend County, Texas
170,978 Black residents · 20.8% of the county · ranked 4 of 254 in Texas by Black population
Fort Bend County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Fort Bend County held 822,779 residents in all, of whom 170,978 — 20.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 822,779 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 170,978 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 20.8% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 4 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 Fort Bend County: 125,818 Black residents in 2010 and 170,978 in 2020. The population grew by 35.9%, and the Black share in Fort Bend County moved from 21.5% to 20.8%.
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
Within Texas, the Census Bureau counts 254 counties and county equivalents, Fort Bend County among them; it stands 4 by Black population, with 170,978 Black residents of the state's 3.6 million. The gazetteer takes the county as its middle geography — the frame between the state page and the place pages — and prints the redistricting counts of Fort Bend County, Texas, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Fort Bend County, Texas, 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 Fort Bend County page gives the frame they stand in: 822,779 residents in all, 170,978 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.