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Gadsden County, Florida
23,435 Black residents · 53.5% of the county · ranked 23 of 67 in Florida by Black population
In Gadsden County, Florida, the 2020 Census counted 43,826 people, 23,435 of them Black alone. At 53.5%, Gadsden County's Black share stands against the state's 15.1% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 43,826 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 23,435 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 53.5% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 23 of 67 |
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 Gadsden County counted 25,996 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 23,435. The population declined by 9.9% across the decade, and the Black share in Gadsden County moved from 56.0% to 53.5%.
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 3.2 million is spread across 67 counties and county equivalents; Gadsden County holds 23,435 of it, rank 23 in the state's order. The county page for Gadsden County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Gadsden County, Florida, 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 Gadsden County page gives the frame they stand in: 43,826 residents in all, 23,435 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.