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Houston County, Texas
5,195 Black residents · 23.5% of the county · ranked 54 of 254 in Texas by Black population
Houston County is a Texas county entry in the gazetteer's first edition. In the 2020 Census, Houston County held 22,066 residents in all, of whom 5,195 — 23.5% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 22,066 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 5,195 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 23.5% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 54 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 Houston County: 6,179 Black residents in 2010 and 5,195 in 2020. The population declined by 15.9%, and the Black share in Houston County moved from 26.0% to 23.5%.
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
Within Texas, the Census Bureau counts 254 counties and county equivalents, Houston County among them; it stands 54 by Black population, with 5,195 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 Houston County, Texas, exactly as published.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Houston County, Texas, 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 Houston County page gives the frame they stand in: 22,066 residents in all, 5,195 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.