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Lamar County, Mississippi

14,372 Black residents · 22.4% of the county · ranked 24 of 82 in Mississippi by Black population

Lamar County is a Mississippi county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Lamar County held 64,222 residents in all, of whom 14,372 — 22.4% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.

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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, 202064,222
Black residents (alone), 202014,372
Black share of the county, 202022.4%
Rank by Black population among Mississippi counties24 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

The two-census record for Lamar County: 10,883 Black residents in 2010 and 14,372 in 2020. The population grew by 32.1%, and the Black share in Lamar County moved from 19.6% to 22.4%.

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; Lamar County holds 14,372 of it, rank 24 in the state's order. The county page for Lamar County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.

Institutions

For the institutions of Black Lamar County — 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 Lamar County page is their frame: 64,222 residents, 14,372 of them Black, and the movement of the last two censuses.