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Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

117,892 Black residents · 26.7% of the county · ranked 3 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

The gazetteer enters Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, on its published figures: a total population of 440,781 in 2020, with 117,892 Black residents counted alone — 26.7% of the county, a share that fixes the county's place in the state's pattern.

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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, 2020440,781
Black residents (alone), 2020117,892
Black share of the county, 202026.7%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties3 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

The published record across two censuses for Jefferson Parish: 113,887 Black residents in 2010, 117,892 in 2020 — grew by 3.5% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 26.3% to 26.7%.

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

Within Louisiana, the Census Bureau counts 64 counties and county equivalents, Jefferson Parish among them; it stands 3 by Black population, with 117,892 Black residents of the state's 1.5 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 Parish, Louisiana, exactly as published.

Institutions

The institutions of Black Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, 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 Parish page gives the frame they stand in: 440,781 residents in all, 117,892 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.