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Guadalupe County, Texas
12,805 Black residents · 7.4% of the county · ranked 29 of 254 in Texas by Black population
Guadalupe County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Guadalupe County held 172,706 residents in all, of whom 12,805 — 7.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 172,706 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 12,805 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 7.4% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 29 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 Guadalupe County: 8,512 Black residents in 2010 and 12,805 in 2020. The population grew by 50.4%, and the Black share in Guadalupe County moved from 6.5% to 7.4%.
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, Guadalupe County among them; it stands 29 by Black population, with 12,805 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 Guadalupe County, Texas, exactly as published.
Institutions
For the institutions of Black Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County page is their frame: 172,706 residents, 12,805 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.