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Lauderdale County, Alabama
9,243 Black residents · 9.9% of the county · ranked 29 of 67 in Alabama by Black population
Lauderdale County is a Alabama county entry in the gazetteer's first edition in the Black Belt heartland. In the 2020 Census, Lauderdale County held 93,564 residents in all, of whom 9,243 — 9.9% — were Black alone, the count this gazetteer records for every place on the same terms.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 93,564 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,243 |
| Black share of the county, 2020 | 9.9% |
| Rank by Black population among Alabama counties | 29 of 67 |
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 Lauderdale County: 9,257 Black residents in 2010 and 9,243 in 2020. The population declined by 0.2%, and the Black share in Lauderdale County moved from 10.0% to 9.9%.
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 1.3 million is spread across 67 counties and county equivalents; Lauderdale County holds 9,243 of it, rank 29 in the state's order. The county page for Lauderdale County carries the published redistricting counts unaltered, and the place pages beneath it carry the detail.
Institutions
The institutions of Black Lauderdale County, Alabama, 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 Lauderdale County page gives the frame they stand in: 93,564 residents in all, 9,243 of them Black, and the county's direction across the last two censuses.