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Jasper County, Texas
5,594 Black residents · 17.0% of the county · ranked 53 of 254 in Texas by Black population
In Jasper County, Texas, the 2020 Census counted 32,980 people, 5,594 of them Black alone. At 17.0%, Jasper 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 | 32,980 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 5,594 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 17.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Texas counties | 53 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 Jasper County counted 5,959 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 5,594. The population declined by 6.1% across the decade, and the Black share in Jasper County moved from 16.7% to 17.0%.
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
Jasper 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 Jasper County's 5,594 of them give it rank 53 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 Jasper County are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Jasper 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 Jasper County page gives the frame they stand in: 32,980 residents in all, 5,594 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.