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Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

14,640 Black residents · 15.0% of the county · ranked 21 of 64 in Louisiana by Black population

The gazetteer enters Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on its published figures: a total population of 97,557 in 2020, with 14,640 Black residents counted alone — 15.0% 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, 202097,557
Black residents (alone), 202014,640
Black share of the county, 202015.0%
Rank by Black population among Louisiana counties21 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 Lafourche Parish: 12,746 Black residents in 2010, 14,640 in 2020 — grew by 14.9% over the decade, with the Black share of the whole moving from 13.2% to 15.0%.

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

Lafourche 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 Lafourche Parish's 14,640 of them give it rank 21 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 Lafourche Parish are the published redistricting counts, reproduced as released.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Lafourche 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 Lafourche Parish page is their frame: 97,557 residents, 14,640 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.