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Hernando County, Florida
10,263 Black residents · 5.3% of the county · ranked 35 of 67 in Florida by Black population
In Hernando County, Florida, the 2020 Census counted 194,515 people, 10,263 of them Black alone. At 5.3%, Hernando 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 | 194,515 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 10,263 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 5.3% |
| Rank by Black population among Florida counties | 35 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 Hernando County counted 8,816 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 10,263. The population grew by 16.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Hernando County moved from 5.1% to 5.3%.
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; Hernando County holds 10,263 of it, rank 35 in the state's order. The county page for Hernando County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Hernando 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 Hernando County page gives the frame they stand in: 194,515 residents in all, 10,263 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.