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Hunt County, Texas
8,014 Black residents · 8.0% of the county · ranked 42 of 254 in Texas by Black population
In Hunt County, Texas, the 2020 Census counted 99,956 people, 8,014 of them Black alone. At 8.0%, Hunt County's Black share stands against the state's 12.2% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 99,956 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 8,014 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 8.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 42 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
In 2010 Hunt County counted 7,133 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 8,014. The population grew by 12.4% across the decade, and the Black share in Hunt County moved from 8.3% to 8.0%.
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
Hunt County is one of 254 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Texas. Together they hold the state's 3.6 million Black residents, and Hunt County's 8,014 of them give it rank 42 of 254 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 Hunt County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Hunt 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 Hunt County page gives the frame they stand in: 99,956 residents in all, 8,014 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.