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Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

6,643 Black residents · 58.7% of the county · ranked 47 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

In Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, the 2020 Census counted 11,321 people, 6,643 of them Black alone. At 58.7%, Jefferson Davis County's Black share stands against the state's 36.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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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, 202011,321
Black residents (alone), 20206,643
Black share of the county, 202058.7%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties47 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

In 2010 Jefferson Davis County counted 7,477 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 6,643. The population declined by 11.2% across the decade, and the Black share in Jefferson Davis County moved from 59.9% to 58.7%.

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; Jefferson Davis County holds 6,643 of it, rank 47 in the state's order. The county page for Jefferson Davis County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

Black Jefferson Davis County's institutions live at the scale of its towns and communities, and the gazetteer records them there, place by place. The Jefferson Davis County page holds the frame around them — 11,321 people in all, 6,643 of them Black — and the trend that runs through both censuses.