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Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

5,148 Black residents · 16.0% of the county · ranked 48 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

In Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, the 2020 Census counted 32,250 people, 5,148 of them Black alone. At 16.0%, Jefferson Davis Parish's Black share stands against the state's 31.4% — the comparison this entry is built around.

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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, 202032,250
Black residents (alone), 20205,148
Black share of the county, 202016.0%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties48 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

In 2010 Jefferson Davis Parish counted 5,468 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 5,148. The population declined by 5.9% across the decade, and the Black share in Jefferson Davis Parish moved from 17.3% to 16.0%.

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

Jefferson Davis Parish is one of 64 counties and county equivalents the Census Bureau counts in Louisiana. Together they hold the state's 1.5 million Black residents, and Jefferson Davis Parish's 5,148 of them give it rank 48 of 64 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 Jefferson Davis Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Jefferson Davis Parish — its congregations, schools, and civic life — this gazetteer points to the place entries inside the county's borders, where each town and community is entered on its own count. The Jefferson Davis Parish page is their frame: 32,250 residents, 5,148 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.