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Jefferson County, Mississippi

6,191 Black residents · 85.3% of the county · ranked 51 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

Jefferson County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Jefferson County held 7,260 residents in all, of whom 6,191 — 85.3% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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Black share of state population — Mississippi 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, 20207,260
Black residents (alone), 20206,191
Black share of the county, 202085.3%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties51 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 Jefferson County: 6,620 Black residents in 2010 and 6,191 in 2020. The population declined by 6.5%, and the Black share in Jefferson County moved from 85.7% to 85.3%.

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 Mississippi, the Census Bureau counts 82 counties and county equivalents, Jefferson County among them; it stands 51 by Black population, with 6,191 Black residents of the state's 1.1 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 Jefferson County, Mississippi, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Jefferson County, Mississippi, 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 Jefferson County page gives the frame they stand in: 7,260 residents in all, 6,191 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.