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Franklin Parish, Louisiana
6,554 Black residents · 33.1% of the county · ranked 40 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population
In Franklin Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 19,774 people, 6,554 of them Black alone. At 33.1%, Franklin 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 | 19,774 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 6,554 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 33.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties | 40 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 Franklin Parish counted 6,537 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 6,554. The population grew by 0.3% across the decade, and the Black share in Franklin Parish moved from 31.5% to 33.1%.
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 Louisiana, the Census Bureau counts 64 counties and county equivalents, Franklin Parish among them; it stands 40 by Black population, with 6,554 Black residents of the state's 1.5 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 Franklin Parish, Louisiana, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Franklin 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 Franklin Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 19,774 residents in all, 6,554 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.