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Holmes County, Mississippi
14,256 Black residents · 83.9% of the county · ranked 26 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
In Holmes County, Mississippi, the 2020 Census counted 17,000 people, 14,256 of them Black alone. At 83.9%, Holmes County's Black share stands against the state's 36.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 17,000 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 14,256 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 83.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 26 of 82 |
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 Holmes County counted 16,018 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 14,256. The population declined by 11.0% across the decade, and the Black share in Holmes County moved from 83.4% to 83.9%.
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 Mississippi, the Census Bureau counts 82 counties and county equivalents, Holmes County among them; it stands 26 by Black population, with 14,256 Black residents of the state's 1.1 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 Holmes County, Mississippi, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Holmes County, Mississippi, 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 Holmes County page gives the frame they stand in: 17,000 residents in all, 14,256 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.