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Iberville Parish, Louisiana

13,377 Black residents · 44.2% of the county · ranked 22 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

Iberville Parish is a Louisiana county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Iberville Parish held 30,241 residents in all, of whom 13,377 — 44.2% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Louisiana 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, 202030,241
Black residents (alone), 202013,377
Black share of the county, 202044.2%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties22 of 64

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 Iberville Parish: 16,454 Black residents in 2010 and 13,377 in 2020. The population declined by 18.7%, and the Black share in Iberville Parish moved from 49.3% to 44.2%.

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 Louisiana, the Census Bureau counts 64 counties and county equivalents, Iberville Parish among them; it stands 22 by Black population, with 13,377 Black residents of the state's 1.5 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 Iberville Parish, Louisiana, exactly as published.

Institutions

Black Iberville Parish's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Iberville Parish page holds the frame around them — 30,241 people in all, 13,377 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.