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Kemper County, Mississippi
5,495 Black residents · 61.1% of the county · ranked 55 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population
In Kemper County, Mississippi, the 2020 Census counted 8,988 people, 5,495 of them Black alone. At 61.1%, Kemper County's Black share stands against the state's 36.6% — the comparison this entry is built around.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 8,988 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 5,495 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 61.1% |
| Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties | 55 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 Kemper County counted 6,288 Black residents; in 2020 it counted 5,495. The population declined by 12.6% across the decade, and the Black share in Kemper County moved from 60.1% to 61.1%.
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; Kemper County holds 5,495 of it, rank 55 in the state's order. The county page for Kemper County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Kemper 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 Kemper County page gives the frame they stand in: 8,988 residents in all, 5,495 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.