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Highlands County, Florida

9,891 Black residents · 9.8% of the county · ranked 36 of 67 in Florida by Black population

Highlands County is a Florida county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Highlands County held 101,235 residents in all, of whom 9,891 — 9.8% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Florida highlighted — the state in the national tile map, shaded by the Black share of each state's population. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census (PL 94-171), Table P1.

Civic Snapshot

MeasureFigure
Total population, 2020101,235
Black residents (alone), 20209,891
Black share of the county, 20209.8%
Rank by Black population among Florida counties36 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

The two-census record for Highlands County: 9,263 Black residents in 2010 and 9,891 in 2020. The population grew by 6.8%, and the Black share in Highlands County moved from 9.4% to 9.8%.

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

Highlands County is one of 67 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Florida. Together they hold the state's 3.2 million Black residents, and Highlands County's 9,891 of them give it rank 36 of 67 in that order. The county is the gazetteer's middle geography — larger than the places inside it, smaller than the state frame — and the figures printed here for Highlands County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Highlands 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 Highlands County page is their frame: 101,235 residents, 9,891 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.