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Jackson County, Mississippi
30,070 Black residents · 21.0% of the county · ranked 8 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
Jackson County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Jackson County held 143,252 residents in all, of whom 30,070 — 21.0% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 143,252 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 30,070 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 21.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 8 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
The two-census record for Jackson County: 30,034 Black residents in 2010 and 30,070 in 2020. The population grew by 0.1%, and the Black share in Jackson County moved from 21.5% to 21.0%.
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
The state's Black population of 1.1 million is spread across 82 counties and county equivalents; Jackson County holds 30,070 of it, rank 8 in the state's order. The county page for Jackson County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
Black Jackson County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Jackson County page holds the frame around them — 143,252 people in all, 30,070 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.